Composition of Essential Oil of Artemisia persica Boiss. from Iran

authors:

avatar Omid Sadeghpour 1 , * , avatar Gholamreza Asghari 2 , avatar Mohammad Reza Shams Ardekani 3

Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

How To Cite Sadeghpour O, Asghari G, Shams Ardekani M R. Composition of Essential Oil of Artemisia persica Boiss. from Iran. Iran J Pharm Res. 2004;3(1):e127986. https://doi.org/10.22037/ijpr.2010.300.

Abstract

The steam-distilled essential oil from Artemisia persica growing wild in Iran was analyzed by GC/MS. In all 50 compounds were identified; Davanone (60.56%), Cis Chrysanthenyl acetate (8.65%), Limonene (5.68%), α Pinene (3.74%), Davanone ether isomer + (3.6%) and α Thujene (3.6%) were the main components of the oil respectively.