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Diosgenin is an important basic raw material for the production of steroid hormone drugs. Steroid hormones have strong anti-infection, anti-allergic, anti-viral and anti-shock pharmacological effects, and are important drugs for the treatment of rheumatism, cardiovascular, lymphoid leukemia, cellular encephalitis, skin diseases, anti-tumor and rescue of critically ill patients. It is an important raw material for the intermediate of steroid hormone drugs, gestational dienolone acetate, from which various steroid drugs such as hydrocortisone, prednisone, norethisterone, pyridoxine, and dexamethasone can be synthesized.

Diosgenin is called "medicinal gold" by the pharmaceutical industry, and its medicinal value is very important and broad.

In the history of the world's steroidal pharmaceutical raw materials industry, China's diosgenin has always been in a dominant and monopoly position, occupying 97% of the world's steroidal pharmaceutical raw materials market share.

Although other developed countries have been committed to finding and producing substitutes for decades, due to the inherent climatic and geographical conditions and raw material defects, the cost of substitutes is high and the utilization rate of products is low, so that they can only be imported from China for decades. Diosgenin extracted from turmeric is an important basic raw material for the synthesis of hormones in the pharmaceutical industry. Based on it, it can be used to synthesize and process intermediate bulk drug products such as diene and Worth oxides, and hormone series products such as progesterone, prednisone acetate, budesonide, prednisone acetate, methyl testosterone, cyproterone, mipristone, androstenone, betamethasone, dehydroepiandrosterone. These drugs are extremely versatile and are the second largest class of drugs in the world after antibiotics. The development of turmeric production and processing (Dioscorea japonica) has broad prospects.