Composition and Antifungal Activity of the Oil ofArtemisia nilagirica(Clarke) Pamp

An ethnobotanical study of traditional anti-inflammatory plants used by the Lohit community of Arunachal Pradesh, India

“…Freshly prepared paste applied over boils, muscle swelling and old wound presumably to prevent microbial infection Anti-microbial, anti-fungal activity (Rao et al, 2006;Shafi et al, 2004), ␣-thujone, borneol, and ␤-thujone, ␤-caryophyllene, camphor, germacrene D, ␣-humulene and 1,8-cineole (Shafi et al, 2004;Haider et al, 2007). Skin diseases, burns, cuts, wounds and inflammations (Begum and Nath, 2000) Asteraceae: Blumea fistulosa (Roxb.)…”

Effect of Altitude on the Essential Oil Constituents ofArtemisia roxburghianaBesser var.purpurascens(Jacq.) Hook

“…Essential oils of several temperate Indian Artemisia species have been investigated by many workers (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Medicinally, A. roxburghiana var.…”

Composition variation in essential oils of Artemisia nilagirica and Artemisia capillaris, growing in India

“…A. vulgaris contains camphor, â-caryophyllene, Dgermacrene, á-humulene, 1,8-cineole, â-eudesmol, borneol, artemisia alcohol, camphene, á-gurjunene, pcymene, terpinene-4-ol, á-pinene, á-phellandrene, ä-carene, trans-isoelemicin, lyratol, ã-elemene, (-)-linalool, thujone, azulene, thujyl alcohol, fernenol, stigmasterol, sitosterol, amyrin and its acetate (Haider et al, 2007;Uniyal et al, 1985 andAboutabl et al, 1997) of which some are either absent or found as minor constituents. Some antifungal constituents have also been reported from the plant (Shafi et al, 2004). The essential oil of A. nilagirica was found to possess complete antidermatophytic activity by the poisoned food technique (Kishore et al, 2001).…”