Variations of Essential oil composition of Acorus calamus: from Uttarakhand Himalaya
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Sweet flag, Acorus calamus L., is a member of the family of Araceae; various part of specie has Essential oil i.e. Rhizomes, root, leaves and roots. Essential oil from rhizome of Acorus calamus L. (sweet flag) growing wild in different parts of regions essential oil root of the species extracted and analyzed by GCGC-MS The yield of calamus oil was in the range of 2.94.7% by hydro stem distillation process and five components are common in all the region these constituted (93.6395.89 %) of oil while ß-asarone as a major constituents vary among the location ranging 74.3692.22 %.
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