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Oleum Helanthi annui, the officinal sunflower(seed) oil (DAC) is a light yellow fatty oil obtained from the ripe fruits by half pressing or extraction. Sunflower oil is only slightly soluble in ethanol, but easily soluble in ether, benzene and chloroform.
No monograph.
Empirical medicine: internal: intestinal irritations. Dysentery, external: eczema, skin inflammation
IngredientsThis section has been translated automatically.
39% oleic acid, 34% alpha linolenic acid, 13% beta linolenic acid, 4% glycerol, 9% saturated fatty acids(palmitic, stearic, arachidic, linoceric acid). Furthermore carotenoids and lecithin.
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The oil is considered an excellent and valuable edible oil.
It is also widely used in cosmetics under the INCI designation "sunflower see oil". Sunflower oil is used in various cosmetic formulations. Sunflower oil is also used in soaps by means of various processes in cosmetic formulations:
Helianthus annuus seed acid, the extract from the flowers and seeds of the sunflower.
Helianthus annuus seed extract, the extract from the seeds of the sunflower.
Helianthus annuus seed oil is the oil obtained from the seeds of the sunflower by cold pressing.
Helianthus annuus seed oil unsaponifiables is the residue that remains after saponification of the sunflower oil as "non-saponifiable".
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Burger A et al. (1993) Hunnius Pharmaceutical Dictionary 7th edition Walter de Gruyter Berlin-New York p. 664
- https://heilkraeuter.de/lexikon/sonnenblume.htm
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