Chondroitin Sulfate (ChS) is known as a kind of polysaccharide which is extracted from animal cartilage. Its molecular chains consist of 50-70 disaccharide units with chain length varies and its relative molecular weight ranges from 10000 to 50000.It’s one of the ingredients of connective tissue matrix and also the prosthetic group of glycoprotein.

As a traditional healthcare product, ChS has been proved to have distinct effects on preventing and curing arthritis. With the development of modern science and technology more and more healthcare functions of ChS have been discovered. It can be applied to increasing the activity of lipase, decompounding TG in chylomicron and defecating the blood by reducing chylomicron. The functions of anti-concreting and anti-thrombus make it widely used in curing coronary thrombosis, high blood lipids and cholestein, angina, myocardial ischemia and myocardial infection. Besides the items listed above, ChS is useful in some cases of neuropathy headache, neuralgia, arthralgia and hemicranias. It is also indispensable in the supplementary treatments of hearing barrier caused by streptomycin, hepatitis and so on. In addition ChS is found to have favorable function of anti-senescence.

To sum up, ChS is a kind of traditional and modern healthcare product which is commonly used today. For example, every year 2500 tons of ChS are consumed in USA. ChS will be more and more popular all over the world.

China is the biggest manufacturer of ChS in the world as it can provide 4/5 of this product.