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 |
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ACORONE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ACOROXIDE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
ALPHA-ASARONE | 3 | Rhizome | 132.0 | 6500.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ALPHA-HUMULENE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ALPHA-HUMULENE | 2 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Rhizome | not available | 280.0 | -1.31 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ALPHA-TERPINENE | 13 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ALPHA-TERPINEOL | 23 | Rhizome | not available | 1500.0 | 1.34 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ALPHA-YLANGENE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 500.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ANEURINE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
AR-CURCUMENE | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ARISTOLENE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ARSENIC | 2 | Rhizome | not available | 1.1 | 1.60 | 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. |
ASARALDEHYDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ASARONALDEHYDE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 2830.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ASARONE | 15 | Rhizome | 2100.0 | 48000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ASARYLALDEHYDE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
ASCORBIC-ACID | 112 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
AZULENE | 10 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
BETA-ASARONE | 18 | Rhizome | 2000.0 | 80000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Antiprolactin | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
Antiproliferant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiprostaglandin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiprostatitic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
Antipruritic | 3 | 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. |
Antipyretic | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antipyruvetic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antiradicular | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
AntiRaynaud's | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antirenitic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
Antiretinopathic | 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 |
Antiretinotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antirheumatalgic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Antirheumatic | 5 | Martindale's 28th |
Antirhinitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antirhinoviral | 1 | Denyer, C.V., Jackson, P., Loakes, D.M., Ellis, M.R., and Yound, D.A.B. Isolation of Antirhinoviral Sesquiterpenes From Ginger (Zingiber officinale). Journal of Natural Products, 57(5): 658-662, 1994. |
Antisalmonella | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiscorbutic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Antiseptic | 20 | Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176) |
Antiserotonic | 1 | Internat. J. Oriental Med. 15(4): 199, 1990+ |