Essential Oil and Important Activities of Thuja orientalis and Thuja occidentalis

Essential oils are scented liquids extracted from certain plants. While some are extracted from flowers and leaves, others come from the seeds, stalks and bark. These concentrated oils contain actual elements of the plant that are referred to as the plant's “essence.” Because particles of a spe...

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Published in:Journal of essential oil-bearing plants (Dehra Dun) 2015-07, Vol.18 (4), p.931-949
Main Authors: Jasuja, Nakuleshwar Dut, Sharma, Suresh, Choudhary, Jyoti, Joshi, Suresh C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
alkaloids
alpha-pinene
antioxidants
antiviral properties
bark
biological activity
camphor
carbon
carene
Essential oil
essential oils
fenchone
flowers
hydrogen
infectious diseases
isothujone
leaves
liquids
metabolism
oils
oxygen
physicochemical properties
Platycladus orientalis
quercetin
quercitrin
rutin
sabinene
saponins
seeds
tannins
Thuja occidentalis
thujone
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Summary:Essential oils are scented liquids extracted from certain plants. While some are extracted from flowers and leaves, others come from the seeds, stalks and bark. These concentrated oils contain actual elements of the plant that are referred to as the plant's “essence.” Because particles of a specific plant are contained in the essence, each type of oil has distinctive chemical properties and characteristics. Essential oils are made up of three elements almost exclusively carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. In Thuja the most prominent constituents of the oil are thujone-isothujone, fenchone and camphor. The main components of all essential oils of leaves were determined as α-pinene, δ-3-carene, sabinene and cedrol. These plants contain plant phytoconstituents such as carbohydrates, alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, saponins and flavonoidic constituents are Rutin, Quercitrin, Quercetin, Amentoflavone. Active compounds produced during secondary vegetal metabolism are usually responsible for the biological properties (antimicrobial, antioxidant, antiviral activity etc.) of plant used for various purposes, including treatment of infectious diseases. This review highlights the some important phytoconstituents and biological properties of T. orientalis and T. occidentalis.
ISSN:0976-5026
0972-060X
0976-5026
DOI:10.1080/0972060X.2014.884774