Acorus Calamus

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ACORUS CALAMUS [BACH] EXT.

Common Name : Bach / Calamus Root / Sweet Flag
Plant Parts Used : Dried Rhizome.

Description
A semi-aquatic, perennial, aromatic herb with creeping rhizomes, growing wild and also cultivated throughout India at an altitude of 2,200 m in the Himalayas. Rhizome horizontal,jointed, somewhat vertically compressed, spongy within, 1.25-2.5 cm in thickness, pale to dark brown or ocassionally orange-brown in colour, leaves grass-like or sword shaped, long and slender flowers small, yellow-green, in spadix; berries green, angular,1-3 seeded; seeds oblong.

Characteristics and Constituents
Active principles are isolated from volatile oil by fractionation. Gas chromatography revealed the presence of two components isolated in pure state i.e. (- asarone) and (- asarone), which were trans - and cis-isomers, respectively of 2,4,5-trimethoxy-1-propenyl benzene (Dandiya , 1970).