Common Names
Sweetflag; Calamus; Flagroot; Myrtle Flag; Sweet Calamus; Sweetroot
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BETA-CURCUMENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Rhizome | 60.0 | 750.0 | 1.07 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
BETA-GURJUNENE | 0 | Rhizome | 20.0 | 1700.0 | 1.00 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
BETA-PINENE | 13 | Rhizome | not available | 150.0 | 1.12 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
BORNEOL | 35 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
BUTYRIC-ACID | 6 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CADALO-1,4,9-TRIENE | 0 | Rhizome | 410.0 | 2050.0 | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
CALACOLENE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 100.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
CALACONE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
CALAMENE | 0 | Rhizome | 40.0 | 1920.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CALAMENENE | 0 | Rhizome | 10.0 | 4000.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
CALAMENOL | 0 | Rhizome | 500.0 | 5000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CALAMENONE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CALAMENONE | 0 | Rhizome | 100.0 | 500.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CALAMEONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 280.0 | not available | Abstract (See species file) |
CALAMOL | 0 | Rhizome | 320.0 | 3885.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
CALAMONE | 0 | Rhizome | 100.0 | 1000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CALARENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
CALCIUM | 28 | Rhizome | not available | 7040.0 | 0.02 | 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. |
CAMPHENE | 9 | Rhizome | 10.0 | 460.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
---|---|---|
Antiacetylcholinesterase | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiacne | 6 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
Antiacrodermatitic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Antiadenomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
AntiAGE | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
Antiaggregant | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiaging | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiakathisic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Antialcoholic | 3 | Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications. |
Antiallergic | 8 | J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569. |
Antialopecic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Antialzheimeran | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antialzheimeran? | 1 | Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8. |
Antianaphylactic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiandrogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antianemic | 3 | Martindale's 29th |
Antianginal | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Antiangiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antianorectic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Antianorexic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |