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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EPISHYOBUNONE | 0 | Rhizome | 402.0 | 2010.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
EPOXYISOACORAGERMACRONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
ETHANOL | 24 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
EUGENOL | 76 | Rhizome | 30.0 | 300.0 | -0.72 | Duke, 1992 * |
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER | 5 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
FURFURAL | 6 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
GALANGIN | 13 | 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. |
GAMMA-ASARONE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
GAMMA-TERPINENE | 11 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
GUAIENE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
IRON | 6 | Rhizome | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ISOACORONE | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
ISOCAESPITOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
ISOCALAMINEDIOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
ISOCALAMUSENONE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
ISOEUGENOL | 16 | Rhizome | 228.0 | 12510.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ISOSHYOBUNONE | 0 | Rhizome | 134.0 | 670.0 | not available | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Refrigerant | 1 | 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. |
Renoirritant | 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. |
Renotoxic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Respirainhibitor | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
Respirastimulant | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
Rodenticide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Rubefacient | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Schistosomicide | 1 | Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp. |
Schizophrenigenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Sclerosant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Secretogogue | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Sedative | 12 | Ortiz de Urbina, A.V., Martin*, M.L., Montero, M.J., Moran, A., and San Roman, L. 1988. Sedating and Antipyretic Activity of the Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica subsp. Ascendens. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25: 165-171, 1989. |
Soap | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Spasmogenic | 5 | Fitoterapia No.59-1984. |
Spermicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Spermigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Stimulant | 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. |
Surfactant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Sweetener | 2 | Martindale's 28th |
Teratogenic | 1 | Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006. |