摘要
Fresh aerial parts of Angelica glauca, growing wild in Kashmir valley in higher Himalaya (Jammu and Kashmir, India), collected at flowering stage from different locations, on hydro-distillation provided a refreshing light pale coloured essential oil with characteristic floral woody flavour. The oil was found to be a complex mixture of mono- and sesquiterpenes and 34 compounds accounting for nearly 97.4%of the oil were characterized with the help of capillary GC, GC-MS, and NMR. Major compounds of the oil were characterized as 脦脦-phellandrene (13.5%), trans-carveol (12.0%), 脦脦-pinene (11.7%), thujene (7.5%), 脦脦-caryophyllene oxide (7.2%), 脦脦-caryophyllene (7.0%), 脦脦-terpinene (6.7%), nerolidol (6.5%), 脦脦-bisabolene (5.2%) and germacrene D (4.5%). It is the first report to exploit the essential oil from Himalayan A. glauca herb collected at flowering stage.