Gelidium amansii  Agar, Red algae   Family: Rhodophyceae        
This is an economically important species of red algae commonly found in the shallow coast, around 3-10 m deep, of many east Asian countries including North and South Korea, China, Japan, and Singapore.
PART USED: Extract
ACTIONS
1. Nutritive.
2. Bulk laxative.
INDICATIONS
1. Often made into a an emulsion with liquid paraffin for the treatment of constipation. (Liquid Paraffin Emulsion with Agar BPC 1949: dose 10-30 ml).
PREPARATIONS: Agar is the dried mucilaginous extract, obtained by boiling, filtering and drying. It occurs in translucent strips or as a powder, it is colourless and tastless and capable of absorbing up to 200 times its volume of water to form a jelly.[1]

DESCRIPTION: Agar is a seaweed fronds and red-brown and translucent ribbons, multiple branches and spherical fruits that ripen in late autumn and early winter.
References
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Constituents
 Most agars consist of two major polygalactoses, the neutral agarose and the sulphonated polysaccharide agaropectin, with traces of amino acids and free sugars.[1]
References
[1] Drogenkunde, 8th Ed. Heinz, A., Hoppe. Pub. W. de Gruyter (1975) Berlin.