Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Academic member of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands
Abstract
Hyssopus officinalis, a medicinal plant, has been as a healer in ancient times. Works of Avicina and Hippocrates, thisplant has several times been mentiond, According to the recent scientists also it has positive affect on treatment of asthma, bronchitis,herpes simplex(1) , and HIV virus (6). The main aim of this research is to survay chemical compound existing in essence of leaves of this plant. At the time 2/3 of the plant has sprouted the leaves were picked up , dried up and the distiled (8). The essence extracted from the above procedure has been analysed by GC/MS (10) , Rt and KI were compared to the standard compounds , then the obtained compounds were recognized and their quantity were defined per percent(4). From the 27 compounds recognized in the plant, the following four had a larger part : Iso pinocomphon 32.43%, Pinocamphon 13.45%, B- pinen 12.20% and pinocarvone 7.5%.
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