GC-MS analysis of the leaf essential oil of Ipomea pes-caprae, a traditional herbal medicine in Mauritius
(2007) Natural Product Communications : an international journal for communications and reviews — Vol. 2, n° 12, p. 1225-1228 (2007)
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- The chemical compositions of the essential oils of the fresh and dried leaves of Ipomea pes-caprae from Mauritius were studied for the first time by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and 70 compounds were identified. The major components were found to be 8-cedren-13-ol (13.0%), (E)-nerolidol (7.0%), guaiol (6.2%), alpha-cadinol (6.2%) and limonene (6.1%) in fresh leaves and beta-caryophyllene (36.6%), alpha-copaene (8.0%), germacrene D (7.3%), phytol (5.8%), delta-cadinene (5.7%), and alpha-humulene (5.4%) in the dried leaf samples. The relationship between the anti-hemorrhoidal activity of Ipomea pes-caprae, one of its traditional uses in Mauritius, and the chemical composition of the essential oil samples is also discussed.
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Marie, D. E. P., Dejan, B., & Quetin-Leclercq, J. (2007). GC-MS analysis of the leaf essential oil of Ipomea pes-caprae, a traditional herbal medicine in Mauritius. Natural Product Communications : an international journal for communications and reviews, 2(12), 1225-1228. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/61933 (Original work published 2007)