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Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Sch. Bip. - Matricaria parthenium L.; hrysanthemum parthenium (L.) Bernh. - Asteraceae
feverfew, Mutterkraut
Annual or perennial herb, 20-60cm high, native to Southeast Europe, West Asia, cultivated and naturalized elsewhere; flowers daisy-like white and yellow, cultivars also with golden aromatic foliage, double flowers, or yellow flowerheads.
„Among volatiles emitted from the aerial parts of feverfew plants and collected by the dynamic headspace technique a total of 41 compounds, mainly monoterpenes, were identified and quantified by GC and GC-MS. α-Pinene, camphene, limonene, γ-terpinene, (E)-β-ocimene, linalool, p-cymene, (E)-chrysanthenol, camphor and (E)-chrysanthenyl acetate were the predominant monoterpenes accounting for nearly 88% of the total volatiles emitted. The average total yield of volatiles emitted over 24 h was 18,160 ng/g fresh weight of leaves and flowers, corresponding to the emission of approximately 8 mg volatiles per day from one fullgrown feverfew plant. No parthenolide or other sesquiterpene lactones were detected. The present investigation does not support the theory of airborne sesquiterpene lactone-containing plant parts or of direct release of sesquiterpene lactones from living plants as the only explanations for airborne Compositae dermatitis. Potential allergens were found among the emitted monoterpenes and their importance in airborne Compositae dermatitis is discussed.“
[Airborne Compositae dermatitis: monoterpenes and no parthenolide are released from flowering Tanacetum parthenium (feverfew) plants., Christensen, L. P., Jakobsen, H. B., Paulsen, E., Hodal, L., Andersen, K. E., Archives of dermatological research, Vol.291(7-8), 1999, 425-431]
