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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Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
FLavor | 20 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
Fungicide | 16 | Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp. |
Fungiphilic | 1 | J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283. |
Fungistat | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
GABA-nergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Gastrosedative | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Genotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Gram(+)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Gram(-)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
GST-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Hallucinogen | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Hallucinogenic | 1 | R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R. |
Hemolytic | 2 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
Hemostatic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Hepatocarcinogenic | 2 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
Hepatoprotective | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Hepatoregenerative | 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. |