Eleutherosides are a diverse group of chemical compounds that were isolated from roots of the herb ''

Eleutherococcus senticosus ''Eleutherococcus senticosus'' is a species of small, woody shrub in the family Araliaceae native to Northeastern Asia. It may be colloquially called devil's bush, Siberian ginseng, taiga root, eleuthero, ''ciwujia'', ''Devil's shrub'', ''shigo ...

'' which is commercially offered mostly as extracts.

Eleutheroside A Daucosterol (eleutheroside A) is a natural phytosterol-like compound. It is the glucoside A glucoside is a glycoside that is chemically derived from glucose. Glucosides are common in plants, but rare in animals. Glucose is produced when a glu ...

is a

saponin Saponins (Latin ''sapon'', 'soap' + ''-in'', 'one of') are bitter-tasting, usually toxic plant-derived secondary metabolites. They are organic chemicals that become foamy when agitated in water and have high molecular weight. They are present ...

and

sterol A sterol is any organic compound with a Skeletal formula, skeleton closely related to Cholestanol, cholestan-3-ol. The simplest sterol is gonan-3-ol, which has a formula of , and is derived from that of gonane by replacement of a hydrogen atom on ...

glycoside In chemistry, a glycoside is a molecule in which a sugar is bound to another functional group via a glycosidic bond. Glycosides play numerous important roles in living organisms. Many plants store chemicals in the form of inactive glycosides. ...

while other eleutherosides, such as

eleutheroside B Syringin is a natural chemical compound first isolated from the bark of lilac (''Syringa vulgaris'') by Meillet in 1841. It has since been found to be distributed widely throughout many types of plants. It is also called eleutheroside B, and is fo ...

(syringin), are

phenyl propanoid The phenylpropanoids are a diverse family of organic compounds that are biosynthesized by plants from the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine in the shikimic acid pathway. Their name is derived from the six-carbon, aromatic phenyl group and ...

glycosides. They serve as marker compounds for the

Thin layer chromatography Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a chromatography technique that separates components in non-volatile mixtures. It is performed on a TLC plate made up of a non-reactive solid coated with a thin layer of adsorbent material. This is called the sta ...

identification of ''

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dietary supplement A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill (pharmacy), pill, capsule (pharmacy), capsule, tablet (pharmacy), tablet, powder, or liquid. A supplement can provide nutrients eithe ...

s. Eleutheroside E is an optical isomer of acanthoside D, which is one of the glycosides isolated from the cluster-flowering acanthopanax and represents the di-β-D-glucoside of (−)-

syringaresinol Syringaresinol is a lignan found in '' Castela emoryi'', in ''Prunus mume''. This compound inhibits ''Helicobacter pylori'' motility ''in vitro ''In vitro'' (meaning ''in glass'', or ''in the glass'') Research, studies are performed with Cell ...

.Identity of eleutheroside E with acanthoside D. Yu. S. Ovodov, G. M. Frolova, L. A. Elyakova and G. B. Elyakov, Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Division of chemical science, November 1965, Volume 14, Issue 11, pages 2035-2036, File:Eleutheroside A.svg,

(daucosterol) File:Syringin.svg,

Eleutheroside B Syringin is a natural chemical compound first isolated from the bark of lilac (''Syringa vulgaris'') by Meillet in 1841. It has since been found to be distributed widely throughout many types of plants. It is also called eleutheroside B, and is fo ...

(syringin) File:Ethyl galactopyranoside.svg,

Eleutheroside C Eleutherosides are a diverse group of chemical compounds that were isolated from roots of the herb ''Eleutherococcus senticosus'' which is commercially offered mostly as extracts. Eleutheroside A is a saponin and sterol glycoside while other eleu ...

(ethyl galactoside) File:Eleutheroside D.svg,

Eleutheroside D Eleutheroside D is an eleutheroside. An eleutheroside is a compound found in ''Eleutherococcus senticosus'', the Siberian ginseng. Chemically, it is a dimer of sinapyl alcohol glucoside A glucoside is a glycoside that is chemically derived from ...

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{{Reflist Eleutherococcus Glucosides