Cotton flower, commonly known as grass flower, is the cotton before the formation of cotton peach flowers, has been abandoned as a side industry of the cotton industry  Scientists from xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have found that cotton flowers are rich in flavonoids and have a good effect on the treatment of senile dementia  They used modern technology to extract flavonoids from cotton flowers and made total flavonoids tablets of cotton flowers with small dose, obvious efficacy and convenient administration, which was used for the treatment of mild and moderate alzheimer's disease
In June 2014, it was approved as the first clinical trial of Chinese traditional Medicine class 5 new drugs in Xinjiang
Total flavone tablet of Cotton flower was approved as the first clinical trial of Chinese traditional medicine 5 new drugs in Xinjiang