Study on chemical constituents in herbs of Anoectochilus roxburghii II / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the chemical constituents of Anoectochilus roxburghii.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Silica gel and sephadex LH-20 column chromotography were used in the isolation from the ethanol extracts of the whole plant, the compounds were determined on the basis of various modern spectroscopic analysis and physical constants.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Five compounds were isolated from the CHCl3 soluble portion, identified as p-Hydroxybenzaldehyde (I), ferulic acid (II), quercetin (III), daucosterol (IV), cirsilineol (V).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>All these compounds were isolated from the plant for the first time, compound V was isolated from the Orchid Family for the first time, the other compounds were isolated from this genus for the first time.</p>