Composition of<i>Artemisia Annua</i>Essential Oil Obtained from Species Growing Wild in Bulgaria

Abstract

The Artemisia annua essential oil was obtained by hydro distillation of species growing wild in Bulgaria and was analyzed by GC/MS. Thirty six compounds were identified. The main ones were α-caryophillene (24.73%), α-cuvebene (13.53%), α-copaene (7.42%), α-selinene (8.21%) artemisia ketone (8.45%) and camphor (3.61%). The composition of the essential oil appeared to be different from those of species growing in other geographic locations.