Chinese Herbal Medicines as Potential Agents for Alleviation of Heat Stress in Poultry

Table 4

Total sugar (% of dry matter) in form of monosaccharide in the samples determined using HPLC.

Herbal medicine	Arabinose and xylose	Fructose	Mannose	Glucose and galactose	Total
Bai Zhu (Atractylodes)	10.28	3.26	3.64	7.08	24.26
Bai Shao (Paeonia)	6.5	ND	0.58	55.3	62.38
Chai Hu (Bupleurum)	11.79	9.13	2.85	10.13	33.9
Bo He (Mentha)	10.15	ND	2.7	8.93	21.78
Bu Gu Zhi (Psoralea)	ND	5.1	3.7	5.52	14.32
Gan Cao (Glycyrrhiza)	7.67	4.73	ND	30.86	43.26

Values are mean of three replicates; ND: not detectable.