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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|
Antimetastatic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antimetastatic (Stomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antimigraine | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
Antimite | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antimitotic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antimitral-valve-prolapse | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
AntiMS | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
Antimutagenic | 7 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235. |
Antinephritic | 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. |
Antinephrolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antinesidioblastosic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Antineuralgic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antineuramidase | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antineuropathic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antineurotic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Antinitrosaminic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antinitrosating | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antinitrosic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Antinociceptive | 4 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Antinyctalopic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |