a study of the quality of a local herbal tea and volatiles of parinari ...

In contrast, the he CFMD method extracted only the compound 2-Butoxy y ethanol. ethanol
An analysis of the data in Table 4.2 and 4.3 indicated that ffatty
acid id esters were extracted
using the hydrodistillation and solvent extraction method only. . This was due to the use of
the non polar solvent (hexa (hexane) used for extraction in this method. . In the hydrodistillation
and solvent extraction action from the hydrosol and the CFMD method,
(dichloromethane) was used, hence, fatty acids were not extracted.
The compounds linalool, geraniol, β-ionone and geranyl acetone were obtained from
F. ancylantha tea leaves using both hydrodistillation methods (Figure 4.1). 4.1) Linalool has
been shown to have anticancer effects (Usta et al., 2009). While geranyl eranyl acetone is
known to be a mosquito to repellent (Innocent et al., , 2010). Thus, the use of F. ancylantha
leaves as a repellent against the mosquito, A. gambie s.s. should be investigated and
exploited.
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a polar solvent
Figure 4.1: Structures of compounds identified in F. ancylantha tea leaves after
extraction using the hydrodistillation methods