Composition of essential oil of artemisia indica

Abstract

The hydrodistillation essential oil from Artemisia indica growing in Iran was analyzed by GC/MS. In all 20 compounds were identified; a-pinene (3%), camphene (2.12%), b-pinene (2.01%), a-phellandrene(1.05%), p-cymene (1.15%), limonene (0.5%), 1,8- cineole (0.65%), artemisia ketone (21.34%), a-thujone (0.7%), a-thujone (1%), myrtenol (%0.56), camphor (6.54%), borneol (8.07%), terpinen-4-ol (2.76%), nerol (1.45%), carvone (0.67%), chrysanthenyl acetate (10.6%), (e)-caryophyllene (1.45%), bhimachalene (1%) and germacrene-B (10%) were the main components of the oil.