Chemical Study of Extracts of Siphonochilus aethiopicus (Schweinf.) B.L. Burtt (Zingiberaceae) from Benin

Abstract

The chemical composition of essential oils, fatty acids and unsaponifiable of the limbs, foliars sheaths and rhizomes of Siphonochilus aethiopicus were studied by GC/MS. In petroleum ether extracts, the lipidic fractions are marked by significant rates (7.41 to 23.45 %) of fatty acids in C18. The majority of unsaponifiable compounds from the limbs, foliars sheaths and rhizomes of S. aethiopicus are essentially consist of terpenoïds accompanied by heneicosane (6.2 to 21.6 %). Otherwise, S. aethiopicus contains varied rates of catechic saponins, tanins and leucoanthocyanes in its organs.

Combined analysis of Xylopia rubescens Oliv. leaf oil using gas chromatography with flame ionization detection, gas chromatography with mass spectrometry and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance: structure elucidation of new compounds

“…The composition of X. rubescens leaf oil, dominated by furanoguaiadienes and a heptadecatrienone, differed dramatically from the composition of leaf oils of other Xylopia species. For instance, leaf oils from X. aethiopica , the most investigated Xylopia species, exhibited various compositions dominated either by β‐pinene (34.9%), β‐elemol (14.9%) and α‐pinene (11.6%) or by β‐pinene (28.7–46.1%), α‐thujene (8.0–12.6%), β‐elemol (5.1–11.9%) and valerianol (7.7–10.6%) in samples from Benin; germacrene D (24.5%) and β‐pinene (17.3%) in samples from Ghana . Ivorian oil samples were first reported to contain β‐pinene (16.0%), β‐eudesmol (12.7%) and α‐pinene (10.4%) .…”

Review of Medicinal Plants Traditionally Used to Treat Diarrhea by the People in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia

“…DC's root or stem bark is dried, powdered, mixed with honey, and drunk orally as a treatment for diarrhea [23]. Its antidiarrheal activity may be attributed to its constituents, such as caryophyllene oxide, d-cadinene, viridifora, epi-a-cadinol, a-cadinol, cis-calamenen-10-ol, citronellyl pentanoate, b-caryophyllene, and a-humulene [94].…”