Tongkat Ali Extraction Method
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Tongkat Ali Description
Eurycoma longifolia (Simaroubaceae) is a small tree to 15 m high. Plants
dioecious (flowers on a plant are either male or female). Leaves compound,
long, and crowded at the tips of the branches. When the leaves fall they
leave large scars on the stems. Leaflets are ovate-lanceolate, sessile or
nearly so, and opposite. Flowers are borne in axillaries panicles, mostly
large and lax, and puberulous with short hairs. Flowers are unisexual; male
flower has sterile pistil, female flower has sterile stamens. Fruits
ellipsoid or ovoid, 10-20 x 5-12 mm, green to blackish-red when ripe.
Tongkat Ali Ecology
E. longifolia prefers acid and sandy soils at low altitude up to 700 m above
sea level. Plants usually grow in beach forests, primary and secondary
forests, mixed dipterocarp forests and also in heath forests. In Riau
Province, Sumatra, 1991, the author found that plants were growing in areas
with an average temperature of 25C and 86% humidity. The soils in this area
were found to be poor in nutrients, but mycorrhizal fungi were found growing
near the plants and may indicate an association. Seedlings require shade,
during which time they develop an extensive root system. Following juvenile
stages, plants need stronger light to develop vegetative and reproductive
parts. E. longifolia flowers and fruits throughout the year, with peak
flowering from June-July and peak fruiting in September.
Tongkat Ali Distribution
E. longifolia originates from South East Asia, including Indonesia, Malay
Peninsula, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In Indonesia, this species
only occurs naturally in Sumatra and Kalimantan.
Tongkat Ali extract production
process
Our Tongkat Ali extract
production starts with the collection of the roots. While we are in the
process of establishing a 10-hectare plantation for growing eurycoma
longifolia (tongkat ali) shrubs, our current raw material is all collected
in the wild. Collection is tiresome because eurycoma longifolia roots grow
mostly vertical into the ground, and they do so for up to two meters. For
each root that is to be harvested, an individual hole has to be dug: roots
cannot just be pulled out of the soil.
All our roots are collected by
cooperatives of indigenous tribal people who have a so-called adat right on
the forests where they collect tongkat ali roots. Adat forests are
traditionally owned by whole tribal communities, not by individuals or
corporations. None of our roots are collected by commercial enterprises in
the modern sense.
In traditional forests where
the tongkat ali roots are collected, no pesticides are used whatsoever, and
there is also no industrial pollution. The nearest town is at least 50
kilometers away from the areas where our roots are collected. For this
reason, the soil where our tongkat ali roots are collected carries virtually
no load of industrial pollutants.
For the production of our
tongkat ali extract, only roots are used. While the same glyco-proteins that
form the active ingredients of tongkat ali roots are also found in the stem,
branches, and even the leaves of the shrub, the concentration of active
ingredients is by far the highest in the root, especially in roots of shrubs
older than 5 years. In traditional Indonesian and Southeast Asian medicine,
only the roots of the eurycoma longifolia shrub are used.
After the roots are collected,
they are brought over a distance of about 1000 kilometers (Sumatra is a very
large island) to our storage facilities in Medan, North Sumatra.
In Medan, all roots are washed
and then dried for about a month. Roots are then chipped, using specialized
electric equipment.
The chipped roots are soaked in
water for 48 hours and than repeatedly heated for about 15 minutes. No
chemicals whatsoever are added. (The traditional Indonesian way of preparing
tongkat ali is to boil about 50 gram of chipped root for 30 to 60 minutes,
and then drink the water after it has cooled down. Thus, in traditional
medicine, only the water-soluble parts of the tongkat ali roots are used,
and a single dose needs about 50 gram of root.)
Continuing our production
process, the chipped roots are removed and the soak water is evaporated in a
process that takes about 72 hours. Evaporation is intensified during the end
phase of this process to guard against the development of molds.
The evaporator produces
crystal-dry flakes which are then milled. The milled powder is highly
hydrophilic and therefore stored in air-tied containers. Shipping quantities
are vacuum-packed in plastic bags, each containing 40 gram. Courtesy of
http://www.tongkat-ali-eurycoma-longifolia-jack.com/production.htm
Another extraction explanation is as follows---
Tongkat ali extract chemistry
Plants, of course, are mostly made of cellulose, the material that builds
cell walls. Cellulose is not pharmacologically active in animals, including
those of the species homo sapiens. Beyond that, cellulose also is very
difficult to digest (unless you are a cow or another kind of animal that can
live of foliage).
Many plants, including eurycoma longifolia (the Latin, scientific name of
tongkat ali), also do contain pharmacologically active substances, and this
have been the mainstay of traditional medicine for tens of thousands of
years; and for thousands of years, these pharmacologically active substances
have been obtained by making exact.
The basics of making extracts are very simple and straightforward: soak
and cook in water, throw out the solid material, and you have an aqueous
extract (a tincture). The solid material primarily is cellulose, while the
tincture contains the pharmacologically active substances; the worldwide
most widely used aqueous extract, or tincture, obviously is tea. You brew it
to obtain the pharmacologically active ingredients (caffeine, theobromine)
and discard the solid material (the leaves).
Liquid tongkat ali extract is produced in the same manner. You need about
10 liters of water for 1 kg of chipped root. Soak it for a day, then bring
to a boil and cook for half an hour or an hour. Thereafter the
pharmacologically active ingredients are in the water, and the boiled root
material (practically just cellulose) can be discarded.
Up to this level, producing an extract doesn't need any high-tech
equipment. But now, you have 10 liters of water, which are difficult to sell
to potential buyers who are spread throughout the world. You have to get rid
of the H2O, and that is where you can apply technologies that are either
basic or advanced. You can evaporate the water by simply heating the
tincture (which will take days). Or you can intensify evaporation by heating
the tincture in a pressurized chamber, or by having dry air passing over the
tincture's surface.
The technologies that are applied to evaporate the water of an aqueous
extract may be crude or refined, but water evaporation really is all what
it's about. If you have evaporated all the water, you have a dry extract,
which can be filled into capsules and easily shipped to wherever you want
to.
I did try this procedure myself with 100 grams of tongkat ali chipped
root, soaked and cooked in 1 liter of water, and what I got, after three
days, was about 2 gram of solid residue. Therefore, it is easy to determine
that the water-soluble parts of tongkat ali root are 2 percent, and that a
natural, unprocessed extract has the strength 1:50 (1 gram of powdered
extract resulting from 50 grams of chipped root).
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