Spanish sage oil

Unlike Dalmatian sage oil, Spanish sage oil does not contain a- or /3-thujone camphor and 1,8-cineole are the major components [760-762a] and are responsible for the odor of the oil, which is used primarily in pharmaceutical preparations and in technical perfumery. FCT 1976 (14) p.857 [8022-56-8], [95371-15-6]. 

Sage Oil, Spanish-Type, occurs as a colorless to slightly yellow oil with a camphoraceous odor that has a cineole top note. It is the volatile oil obtained by distillation from the plants of Salvia lavandulaefolia Vahl. or Salvia hispanorium Lag. (Fam. Labiatae). It is soluble in most fixed oils and in... 

Synonyms Sage oil, Spanish Salvia lavandulaefolia Salvia lavandulaefolia oil Spanish sage oil... 

Sage, sage oleoresin, and Dalmation sage oil Spanish sage oil. Sage was formerly official in... 

Spanish sage oil is produced by steam distillation of leaves and twigs of Salvia lavandulifolia Vahl growing in Spain in the provinces Granada, Murcia, Almaria, and Jaen. The oil is an almost colorless to pale yellow liquid with the characteristic camphoraceous odor of the leaves. 

Additional remark Under the name Spanish sage oil , an essential oil of S. lavandu-lifolia Vahl [290-272-9 90106-49-3] is commercially available. As specified in ISO [272], it contains 1,8-cineole (10-30%), camphor (11-36%) and linalool/linalylacetate in higher amounts than the Dalmatian oil , various monoterpenes hydrocarbons, bomeol, -terpinylacetate and sabinylacetate. 

Spanish sage oil Light, yellowish oil with a fresh, camphor-like odor resembling Eucalyptus. Production By steam distillation from the herbage of the Spanish sage. Salvia lavandulifolia. 

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Spanish sage oil Salviae lavandulifoliae aetheroleum Salvia lavandulifolia Vahl. 

Salvia lavandulaefolia is closely related to S. officinalis. It grows wild in Spain and southwestern France. Spanish sage oil is obtained by steam distillation of its leaves. 

Phenolic acids (e.g., salvin and salvin monomethyl ether) isolated from sage have antimicrobial activities, especially against Staphylococcus aureus.Antileishmanial activity has recently been reported for sage polyphenolics, which also exhibited immunomodulatory activity. Spanish sage oil has also been reported to have antimicrobial... 

Sage leaf extracts and Spanish sage oil were found to enhance memory and to be beneficial in the management of Alzheimer s disease through interaction with the cholinergic system and protection against beta-amyloid protein neurotoxicity, respectively3 ... 

Spanish sage oil was nonirritating and nonsensitizing to human skin and skin of laboratory animals it was also nonphototoxic on mice and swine. 

Regulatory Status. GRAS (sage, 182.10 and 182.20 Spanish sage, 182.20) no thujone limit for sage oil is specified (see absinthium). Subject of a positive German therapeutic monograph allowed for internal use in dyspeptic complaints, and as diaphoretic internally for inflamed oral mucous membranes. ... 

It is soluble in 2 volumes of 80 per cent alcohol. Spanish sage oil has the following characters... 

Esters are generally safe to use, with low toxicity (see exception of methyl salicylate and sabinyl acetate found in Spanish sage). Although few essential oils have esters as their main components, esters are found in greater numbers than other functional groups. 

ISO 3526 2005 Oil of sage, Spanish (Salvia lavandulifolia Vahl), International Organisation of Standardisation, Geneva, Switzerland (2005)... 

This oil is produced from C. camphora Sieb. wood in China and Taiwan. Many chemotypes and also varieties from Cinnamomum species exist, but the true camphor oil is meant. This oil is rarely adulterated because of the cheap price but, fractioned and enriched in camphor up to 90%, is used to mix up camphor containing oils like rosemary, Spanish sage, and spike lavender. Smallest traces of safrole (a carcinogenic compound) shows the use of C. camphora higher boiling fractions. 

From the first runnings of a Spanish oil of sage no salvene could be isolated. 

Ver) m uy samples of Spanish "rosemary oil have figures welf outside the above limits. They are usually, however, distillates from a mixture of sage with rosemary dowel s—and are accepted as commercial Spanish ro emarv oil.]... 

E. Langa, G. Della Porta, A.M.F. Palavra, J.S. Urieta, A.M. Mainar, Supercritical fluid extraction of Spanish sage essential oil Optimization of the process parameters and modelling. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids 49 (2009), p. 174-181. 

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