Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Academic member of Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Medicinal Plants Department
Abstract
Vitex Pseudo - negundo is one of the medicinal plants, characteristic, together with oleander and temarisk, of the brushwood of some river in southern Iran. The plant has an agreeable and spicy fragrance particulary during flowering stage. Some therapeutics effects like: antibacterial activity of some components of essential oil, anti-androgenic action of aucubin and casticin and hormmone-like activity of iridoids and ecdysteroids is reported for this plant.
As part of continuing studies of essential oil from medicinal plants, we report in this paper the chemical composition of essential oil which is obtained by hydrodistillation and steam-distillation from leaves and fruits of vitex sp.and identified by Gc\Ms.
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