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Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Essential Oil from Dry Rhizome of Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort and Their Characterization by GC/MS

Hong Zhanying, Wang Xuezhao, Le Jian, Zhang Dongchun, Chai Yifeng, Liu Zhengliang   

  1. 1. School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433;
    2. Shanghai Institute for Drug Control, Shanghai 200233
  • Received:2002-02-22 Revised:2002-04-15 Online:2002-06-15 Published:2002-06-15

Abstract: Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of essential oil from dry rhizome of Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort was de-veloped. GC/MS was used for the determination of the composition of essential oil. Forty-four compounds were identified. Theconventional extraction method was conducted in parallel for comparison. The extracts were qualitatively compared by GC/MS.The yields of SFE and steam distillation-extraction were 4.16%(v/w) and 0.8%(v/w), respectively. Application of SFE ofessential oil from dry rhizome of Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort was preferable.

Key words: Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), Essential oil, Essential oil, GC/MS, GC/MS

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