Planta Med 2021; 87(15): 1284
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1736892
Abstracts
8. Poster Contributions
8.8 Medicinal plants and natural product research on Traditional Medicines

Hydrodistillation Assay and Essential Oil Optimising Yield Study – a Comparative Analysis of Essential Oil Content of Irish Grown and Commercially sourced Chamomile Matricaria recutita

H Baker
1   Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland
,
G Levieille
1   Munster Technological University, Cork, Ireland
,
S Jackson
2   Modern Botany, Schull, Cork, Ireland
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Essential oil (EO) was extracted from Irish grown chamomile and a commercial sample of chamomile by hydrodistillation using a Clevenger apparatus utilising a procedure calibrated during this study. Samples were found to contain a significantly higher concentration of EO than the commercial sample. The average volume extracted from the Irish grown samples and commercial sample was 0.765 mL/100 g and 0.3 mL/100 g, respectively. The highest EO content was extracted from the samples sourced from LI (Long Island), suggesting that Matricaria recutita may thrive in an environment exposed to harsh weather conditions. It was confirmed that the addition of a solvent during the hydrodistillation process did not affect the EO yield, as suggested by Clevenger[1]. To definitively determine the constituent profile of the samples and evaluate the quality, all samples should be further analysed using quantitative analytical techniques, e. g., HPTLC, HPLC, GC-MS.

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13 December 2021

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