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Analysis of Salvia coccinea from Jamaican populations
Glenroy D A Martin1, William F Reynolds, Paul B Reese
1Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. gmartin1@uwf.edu
Abstract:
This is the first report of a phytochemical investigation of Jamaican populations of a local folk medicinal plant Salvia coccinea (Lamiaceae/Labiatae). Apart from the presence of 3-sitosterol, phytochemical profiling of the aerial parts yielded compounds other than those previously reported from Indian and Italian populations. The triterpenes betulinic acid and betulin, the phytosterols beta-sitosterol and beta-sitosterol-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside, as well as the steroid precursor squalene were isolated. The structures of the compounds were established by comparison of NMR spectroscopic data with those reported in literature.
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