Constituents of Essential Oils from Three<i>Salvia</i>Species

Abstract

ABSTRACT The essential oils of wild growing Salvia tomentosa Mill, and S. scabiosifolia (Lam.), and cultivated S. officinalis L. (sect. Salvia, Lamiacea) were studied by GC and GC/MS. The number of compounds identified in the Salvia oils were 30, 31 and 22 respectively, the major ones being β-pinene (29.1% in S. tomentosa), camphor (48.7% in S. scabiosifolia) and α- and β-thujone (29.4% and 17.4% in S. officinalis). KEY WORD INDEX: Salviatomentosa Salvia scabiosifolia Salvia officinalis Lamiaceaeessential oilsβ-pinenecamphorα-thujoneβ-thujone