Myrtle Calamus

METHYLEUGENOL Up to 60% in various parts of the basil plant. Around 45% in snakeroot oil. In decent amounts in calamus, cas-sie, myrtle, pimento, pistacia, pteronia and some forms of tarragon. 

Acorus calamus (calamus root, sweet flag, rat root, sweet sedge, flag root, sweet calomel, sweet myrtle, sweet cane, sweet rush, beewort, muskrat root, pine root) contains several active constituents called asar-ones. The basic structure is 2,4,5-trimethoxy-l-propenyl-benzene, which is related to the hallucinogen 3,4-methylenedioxyphenylisopropylamine (MDA). The amounts of the asarones in calamus rhizomes vary considerably with the botanical variety. For example, there are high concentrations in triploid calamus from Eastern Europe but none detectable in the diploid North American variety. 

---