Identification of Volatile Essential Oil, and Flavor Characterization and Antibacterial Effect of Fractions from Houttuynia cordata Thunb -I. Identification of Volatile Essential Oil Compounds from Houttuynia cordata Thunb -I. Identification of Volatile Essential Oil Compounds from Huttuynia cordata Thunb-

Since Houttuynia cordata is well known as a medicinal herb, due to its antibacterial activity on various microorganisms, present investigation was performed to identify the flavor compounds for volatile essential oil. Volatile essential oil was collected by simultaneous distillation-extraction(SDE), and then the oil components were separated on HP-5 capilliary column and identified those components by GC-MS. Fifty two compounds were isolated from the volatile essential oil of Houttuynia cordata and forty four were positively identified by GC-MS. The volatile compounds were composed mainly of terpenoids(25 classes), aldehydes(7 classes), alcohols(4 classes), ketones(3 classes), acids(1 class) and miscellaneous compounds(4 classes). Of these, the major compounds were , , decanal, 2-undecanone and geranyl propionate.