Volatile constituents and antimicrobial activities of Salvia suffruticosa Montbr. & Auch. ex Benth. from Iran

✍ Scribed by Hassan Norouzi-Arasi; Issa Yavari; Firoozeh Chalabian; Parvin Baghaii; Vahid Kiarostami; Malihe Nasrabadi; Ali Aminkhani

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/ffj.1514

✦ Synopsis

The volatile oil from the aerial parts of Salvia suffruticosa Montbr. & Auch. ex Benth. growing wild in Iran was obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Thirty components representing 95.2% of the oil were identified. The main constituents of the oil were camphor (48.5%), 1,8-cineol (18.6%) and camphene (7.9%). Antimicrobial activity of the oil against six Gram-positive and -negative bacteria was determined by measuring the growth inhibitory zone. The oil showed significant antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus saprphyticus, Salmonella typhi, Shigella flexnery and Escherichia coli. The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis were insensitive to the oil.