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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Antitumor | 6 | Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992. |
Antitumor (Breast) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor (Cervix) | 1 | Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987. |
Antitumor (Colon) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor (Gastric) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor (Pancreas) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor (Prostate) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor (Stomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitumor-Promoter | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antitussive | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiulcer | 9 | Yamahara, J., et al. Stomachic principles in ginger. II. Pungent and anti-ulcer effects of low polar constituents isolated from ginger, the dried rhizoma of... Yakugaku Zasshi 112: 645-655 (1992). |
Antivaginitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiviral | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiviral? | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Antivulvitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiwrinkle | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Antiyeast | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anxiolytic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Apifuge | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |