Background & Aim:  Acorus calamus L. (Araceae) is an herb traditionally used in Indian and Chinees system of medicine. It is a perennial herb with long, cylindrical scented rhizomes which are creeping and extensively branched with the thickness up to 2.5 cm. The rhizomes are whitish internally and brownish externally in appearance. It is vernacularly known as ...

High-valued medicinal plants Achillea millefolium, Acorus calamus, Arnebia nobilis, Fumaria indica, Gymnema sylvestre, Origanum vulgare, Paeonia emodi, Peganum harmala, Psoralea corylifolia, Rauwolfia serpentina, and Vetiveria zizanioides were identified with the help of taxonomical markers and investigated for characterization and palynological studies. These parameters are used to analyze the...

A preparative gas chromatography (pGC) method was developed for the separation of isomers (cis- and trans-asarone) from essential oil of Acorus tatarinowii. The oil was primarily fractionated by silica gel chromatography using different ratios of petroleum ether and ethyl acetate as gradient elution solvents. And then the fraction that contains mixture of the isomers was further separated by pG...

Acorus gramineus SOLANDER (Araceae), is officially listed in the Korean Pharmacopoeia which records its sedative, digestive, analgesic, diuretic, and antifungal effects. This herbal drug has been reported to be responsible for various pharmacological actions on the central nervous system (CNS): The water extract or methanol extract of AGR antagonized pentylenetetrazole-induced convulsion, poten...

This study examined the performances of Acorus calamus, Pontederia cordata, and Alisma plantagoaquatica in removing nitrogen (N) from farmland wastewater. P. cordata showed fastest rate N removal, followed by A. plantagoaquatica, whereas that calamus was slowest. achieving a greater TN reduction soil than calamus. demonstrated highest adsorption capacity, 32.6% 392.1% higher respectively. The p...