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Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Sagittaria trifolia

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The essential oil of Sagittaria trifolia, a well-known famous medicinal foodstuff in China, was analyzed for the first time using GC-MS. Twenty-eight constituents were identified. The major components of the oil were hexahydrofarnesyl acetone (62.3%), tetramethylhexadecenone (5.8%), myristaldehyde (4.7%), n-pentadecane (2.9%), and 2-hexyldecanol (2.9%).The antimicrobial activity of the essential oil was evaluated against seven microorganisms, including two clinically isolated strains and five reference strains, using microbiological cylinder plate assay and broth microdilution methods. The results showed that the oil had a significant antimicrobial effect on four of them. This antimicrobial activity can partly explain why the oil is used medicinally during childbirth and for skin diseases in Chinese traditional medicine.

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  1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Zheng Xiangwei, Nan Peng, Zhong Yang & Chen JiaKuan

  2. Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Shanghai, 20004

    Wei Xiaodong

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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 419–420, September–October, 2006.

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Xiangwei, Z., Xiaodong, W., Peng, N. et al. Chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of the essential oil of Sagittaria trifolia . Chem Nat Compd 42, 520–522 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-006-0203-6

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