Composition of Essential Oil of Cuminum cyminum

The seeds of Cuminum cyminum, have been used in Iranian traditional medicine under the name of cumin, as anti-vomiting, anti-asthma and anti-spasm. Composition of the essential oil, which was obtained from the seeds of C. cyminum collected from Ilam, was determined by GC-MS. In total, 25 components (83.36 %) of essential oil were identified. Major constituents were Isobutyl isobutyrate (0.45%), alpha-thujene (0.5 %), alpha-pinene (30.12 %), sabinene (1.11 %), myrcene (0.34 %), gamma-3-carene (0.21 %), p-cymene (0.6 %), limonene (10.11 %), 1,8-cineole (11.54 %), (E)-ocimene (0.1 %), gamma-terpinene (3.56 %), terpinolene (0.32 %), linalool (10.3 %), alpha-campholenal (1.76 %), terpinene-4-ol (0.6 %), trans-carveole (0.7 %), geraniol (1.0 %), linalyl acetate (4.76 %), alpha-terpinyl acetate (1.8 %), neryl acetate (1 %), methyl eugenol (0.2 %), beta-caryophyllene (0.42 %), alpha-humulene (0.3 %), spathulenol (0.56 %) and humulene epoxide II (1 %).