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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Acorus calamus (Acoraceae)

Common Names
Sweetflag; Calamus; Flagroot; Myrtle Flag; Sweet Calamus; Sweetroot
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
EPISHYOBUNONE 0 Rhizome 402.0 2010.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
EPOXYISOACORAGERMACRONE 0 Rhizome Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ETHANOL 24 Rhizome *
EUGENOL 76 Rhizome 30.0 300.0 -0.72 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Rhizome Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
FURFURAL 6 Rhizome *
GALANGIN 13 Rhizome Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GAMMA-ASARONE 1 Plant *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Plant *
GUAIENE 0 Rhizome J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
IRON 6 Rhizome 350.0 -0.03 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
ISOACOLAMONE 0 Rhizome *
ISOACORONE 0 Rhizome CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOCAESPITOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOCALAMINEDIOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOCALAMUSENONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOEUGENOL 16 Rhizome 228.0 12510.0 *
ISOSHYOBUNONE 0 Rhizome 134.0 670.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LIMONENE 60 Rhizome 10.0 1400.0 1.28 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALOL 0 Rhizome 30.0 6000.0 1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
Acaricide 8 *
ACE-Inhibitor 5 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 *
Algicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allelochemic 4 *
Allelopathic 6 *
Allergenic 10 Martindale's 29th
Analgesic 12 *
Anesthetic 10 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 *
Anhydrotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Anorexic 1 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Anthelmintic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholine 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.