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The Essential Oils of Calamintha nepeta subsp. glandulosa and Ziziphora clinopodioides from Turkey

1991; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 3; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10412905.1991.9697899

2163-8152

Attilâ Akgül, Herman L. De Pooter, L. F. De Buyck,

Natural product bioactivities and synthesis

ABSTRACT The essential oils of two wild growing plants used as herbal tea and mintlike spice in Turkey, Calamintha nepeta (L.) Savi subsp. glandulosa (Req.) P. W. Ball and Ziziphora clinopodioides Lam. were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Twenty-three components were identified in both oils with pulegone (42.0%) and piperitenone (40.4%) being the major components in the Calamintha oil, and pulegone (60.2%), menthone (13.6%) and menthol (10.9%) being the major components in the Ziziphora oil were the main components.