CSIR CIMAP AROMA | Essential Oil Details

Essential Oil Details

Essential Name

: Artemisia annua Jeevanraksha essential oil

Plant Name

: Sweet wormwood, Quinghao

Plant Variety Name

: Jeevanraksha

Plant Tissue Name

: Leaf

Introduction

The essential oil of A. Annua is widely used in mosquito repallent and it was also used as insectiside.

Other Details

The oil have pleasent smell of camphor, it was used in some medicinal creams for aroma.

Reference

1. S Kumar, S Banerjee, S Dwivedi, MM Gupta, RK Verma, DC Jain, SPS Khanuja, AK Mathur,GD Bagchi, M Zehra, VK Mehta, AA Naqvi, S Paul, G Ram, M Ram, D Saikia, RS Sangwan,TRS Kumar, AK Shasany, MP Darokar, AK Singh & A Singh.Registration of Jeevanraksha and Suraksha varieties of the antimalarial medicinal plant Artemisia annua. J. Med. Arom. Pl. Sci. (1999) 21: 47-48.

2. Rao, BR Rajeswara, K. V. Syamasundar, and R. P. Patel. "Chemical Profile Characterization of Artemisia annua L. Essential Oils From South India Through GC-FID and GC-MS Analyses." Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants 17.6 (2014): 1249-1256.

3. Juteau, Fabien, et al. "Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of Artemisia annua essential oil." Fitoterapia 73.6 (2002): 532-535.

Major Compound Details

Serial No.	Compound Name	Compound Percentage(%)
1	Camphor	42.6
2	1, 8-Cineole	17.2
3	Myrcene	15.4
4	Germacrene D	15.6
5	Trans-Pinocarveol	10.9
6	Beta-Selinene	9.4
7	Beta-Caryophyllene	8.9

Minor Compound Details

Serial No.	Compound Name	Compound Percentage(%)
1	Artemisia alcohol	4.3
2	Camphene	3.9
3	Artemisia ketone	2.8
4	Sabinene	2.7
5	Pinocarvone	2.1
6	Beta-Eudesmol	1.7
7	Terpinen-4-Ol	1.1
8	Alpha-Copaene	1.8
9	1,8-Cineole	1.2
10	Beta-Pinene	0.3
11	Beta-Cubebene	0.1
12	Alpha-Terpineol	0.1
13	Alpha-Cadinol	0.2
14	Myrtenol	0.2
15	(E,E)-Farnesene	Trace
16	Myrtenal	0.1
17	(E)-Chrysanthenol	0.3
18	Linalool	0.6
19	(E)-Beta-Farnesene	0.1
20	Isoborneol	0.3
21	Germacrene	0.1
22	Gamma-Cadinene	0.7
23	Borneol	0.2