Chemical Composition and Antimycotic Activity of the Essential Oils of Corn Mint (Mentha arvensis) and Lemon Grass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) Against Human Pathogenic Fungi
A. K. Pandey, Mahendra Rai, Dom N. Acharya
Pharmaceutical Biology
Abstract
The chemical composition of the essential oils obtained from the aerial parts of Mentha arvensis L. (corn mint) and Cymbopogon flexuosus (Steud) Wats. (lemon grass) growing in central India were investigated by GC-MS. The major components identified in the oil of M. arvensis were menthol (71.40%), p -menthone (8.04%), iso -menthone (5.42%) and neo -menthol (3.18%). The main constituents found in the oil of C. flexuosus were citral (43.80%), z -citral (18.93%), geranyl acetate (5.27%) and trans -geraniol (3.66%). The antimycotic activity of the essential oils against Fusarium oxysporum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes was also evaluated.
Extracted Claims
10 claims extracted from this paper into the knowledge graph
trans-geraniol is a component of lemon grass essential oil
“trans-geraniol (3.66%)”
geranyl acetate is a component of lemon grass essential oil
“geranyl acetate (5.27%)”
corn mint essential oil has antimycotic activity against Fusarium oxysporum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes
“The antimycotic activity of the essential oils against Fusarium oxysporum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes was also evaluated.”