Lavandula genus plants (Lamiaceae) are widely used to obtain essential oil, which is known
for its bactericidal, antipsoriatic, anti-inflammatory, sedative, anxiolytic, antiproliferative
and insecticidal effects. The plant is used in the perfumery, decorative cosmetics,
and folk and official medicine. In pharmaceutical practice, raw materials of the perennial
herbaceous plant Lavandula angustifolia L. are mainly used. Currently, lavender flowers and inflorescences are included in
the pharmacopeias of 16 countries. It should be noted that the complex processing
of raw materials is the most ecologically beneficial, but a niche should be properly
found for the proper use of these resources. Plant herbs or leaves contain phenolic
compounds, amino acids and carboxylic acids. Therefore, the study of the chemical
composition of the whole plant may have a perspective. The HPLC study of phenolic
compounds in Lavandula herb grown in Ukraine made it possible to establish the presence of the following
compounds: neochlorogenic acid (0.225 μg/g); vanillin (0.054 μg/g); rosmarinic acid
(0.219 μg/g); salicylic acid (0.078 μg/g); hyperoside (13,568 μg/g); ononin (0.028
μg/g) and apigenin (0.058 μg/g). Lavender herbs have a diverse chemical composition
and contain a sufficiently large amount of essential oil, the largest part of which
is in the inflorescences. Determining the Lavandula herb chemical composition is a promising direction of research, because it will make
it possible to establish other pharmacological effects of the plant compounds, and
will allow the use of the whole plant in the industry, reducing the amount of waste.
