Quantity and Composition of the SDE Prepared Essential Oil of Nepeta macrosiphon Boiss

authors:

avatar Alireza Ghannadi 1 , * , avatar Fatemeh Aghazari 1 , avatar Mitra Mehrabani 1 , avatar Abdolali Mohagheghzadeh 2 , avatar Iraj Mehregan 2

Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Isfahan, Iran
Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and Health services, Shiraz , Iran
Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research: Vol.2, issue 2; 103-105
published online: November 20, 2010
article type: Research Article
received: September 01, 2002
accepted: May 01, 2003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22037/ijpr.2010.20

how to cite: Ghannadi A, Aghazari F, Mehrabani M, Mohagheghzadeh A, Mehregan I. Quantity and Composition of the SDE Prepared Essential Oil of Nepeta macrosiphon Boiss. Iran J Pharm Res. 2003;2(2):e127953. https://doi.org/10.22037/ijpr.2010.20.

Abstract

The essential oil from flowering aerial parts of Nepeta macrosiphon Boiss. growing wild in Kermanshah Province, Iran, was analyzed by GC/MS. This essential oil was prepared by a modified Likens-Nickerson's simultaneous distillation-extraction (SDE) method. Forty-five compounds consisting 95.1% of the total components were identified from the oil obtained with a yield of 0.1%w/w. Among them, spathulenol (14.1%), germacrene D (9.2%) and caryophyllene oxide (8.1%) were the major components of the oil.