Dies ist eine alte Version des Dokuments!
Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers. - Lauraceae
山鸡椒 shan ji jiao, mountain pepper
Shrub or small tree, 8-10 m tall, native to South East Asia (China to Indonesia; Taiwan also: var.formosana = Aperula formosana Nakai); leaves alternate, flowering before leaves or with leaves; umbels solitary or clustered, 4-6-flowered, male flowers with 6 perianth segments; fertile stamens 9; fruit pepper-like subglobose, 5 mm in diam., mature black. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200008831
Litsea cubeba oil, distilled from the fruits (3-5%), contains mainly citral. „Its major use, however, both in the People's Republic of China and in international markets, is as a raw material source for the isolation of citral. This is used in its own right for flavour and fragrance purposes or converted by the chemical industry to a number of important derivatives such as ionones, which possess a violet-like fragrance, and vitamins. “ http://www.fao.org/docrep/V5350e/V5350e09.htm
„The major components in the oils from roots and fruits, from stems, leaves, and alabastra, and from flowers were citral B (neral), β-phellandrene, and β-terpinene, respectively.“
[Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of essential oils from different parts of Litsea cubeba. Wang, H., & Liu, Y., Chemistry & biodiversity, Vol.7(1), 2010, 229-235]
Litsea cubeba oil „… demonstrated a strong irritant and repellent activity on a laboratory-reared colony of
Ae. aegypti as indicated by the rapid escape time from chambers.“
[Excito-repellency properties of essential oils from Melaleuca leucadendron L., Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Persoon, and Litsea salicifolia (Nees) on Aedes aegypti (L.) mosquitoes. Noosidum, A., Prabaripai, A., Chareonviriyaphap, T., Chandrapatya, A., Journal of Vector Ecology, Vol.33(2), 2008, 305-312]