Chemical Composition of Volatile Oil from the Roots of Periploca sepium

Mitsuo MIYAZAWA; Tomoko FUJITA; Chikako YAMAFUJI; Masahiro MATSUI; Nobuo KASAHARA; Yutaka TAKAGI; Yukio ISHIKAWA

doi:10.5650/jos.53.511

Journal of Oleo Science

Online ISSN : 1347-3352
Print ISSN : 1345-8957
ISSN-L : 1345-8957

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Chemical Composition of Volatile Oil from the Roots of Periploca sepium

Mitsuo MIYAZAWA, Tomoko FUJITA, Chikako YAMAFUJI, Masahiro MATSUI, Nobuo KASAHARA, Yutaka TAKAGI, Yukio ISHIKAWA

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Keywords: Periploca sepium, crude drug, volatile oil, 4-methoxysalicylaldehyde, folk medicine

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2004 Volume 53 Issue 10 Pages 511-513

DOI https://doi.org/10.5650/jos.53.511

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Abstract

Periploca sepium is used in Chinese crude drugs and widely employed as a tonic. The volatiles obtained by steam distillation (yield, 0.10%) included 4-methoxysalicylaldehyde (87.8%), furfural (3.13%), and lavender lactone (0.77%) as the major components.

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