Composition of the Essential Oil of the Root of Heracleum persicum from Iran

authors:

avatar Faraz Mojab 1 , * , avatar Bahman Nickavar 1

Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Tehran, Iran

How To Cite Mojab F, Nickavar B. Composition of the Essential Oil of the Root of Heracleum persicum from Iran. Iran J Pharm Res. 2003;2(4):e127647. https://doi.org/10.22037/ijpr.2010.64.

Abstract

The essential oil of the root of Heracleum persicum (Apiaceae) was analyzed by capillary GC and GC /MS. The major constituents were identified as viridiflorol (23.05 %), elemol (3.63 %), β-maliene (3.07 %), spathulenol (3.34 %) and 2-tetradecanol (3.38 %).