Inula helenium or Elecampane root,Barutophor inulin fructosan and the application guide Scabwort.
Contents:
- Basic Botanical and Description of Elecampane.
- Botanical Narrative of Elecampane.
- Elecampane:Description of Root.
- Phytochemicals and Constituents.
- Mechanism of inulin(fructosan):fatty acids.
- Remedy use of Elecampane root.
- Traditional history and uses of Elecampane root.
- Dosage:How much Elecampane root should I take?.
- Research Update:Elecampane root,Inula helenium.
Botanical Narrative of Elecampane.
When in flower elecampane resembles the sunflower on a small scale. Like the sunflower, it is a member of the aster family (Asteraceae). It is a rough plant, growing from 3 to 6 feet in height, but producing during the first year only root leaves, which attain considerable size. In the following season the stout densely hairy stem develops, attaining a height of from 3 to 6 feet.
The leaves are broadly oblong in form, toothed, the upper surface rough and the under side densely soft-hairy. The basal or root leaves are borne on long sterns, and are from 10 to 20 inches long and 4 to 8 inches wide, while the upper leaves are smaller and stemless or clasping.
About July to September the terminal flowerheads are produced, either singly or a few together. As already stated, these flower heads look very much like small sunflowers, 2 to 4 inches broad, and consist of long, narrow, yellow rays, 3 toothed at the apex, and the disk also is yellow.
Reference:
1.Inula helenium or Elecampane root,Barutophor inulin fructosan and the application guide Scabwort.
last edit date:08th,Mar.2010.
- Name:Elecampane Root Extract
- Serie No:R099.
- Specifications:10:1 TLC
- INCI Name:INULA HELENIUM EXTRACT
- EINECS/ELINCS No.:281-666-1
- CAS: 84012-20-4
- Chem/IUPAC Name:Inula Helenium Extract is an extract of the roots of the elecampane,Inula helenium,Compositae





