Chemical constituents of volatile oil from leaves of Cinnmomum wilsonii and its antifungal and antibacterial activities in vitro

The chemical structures of 29 constituents in volatile oil extracted from the dried leaves of Cinnamomum wilsonii have been identified by means of GC-MS technique, among which, the principal were a-linalool (38.71%), a-citral (18.52%) and a-citial (22.67%). The inhibitory essays of this oil have been studied against 10 fungi and 4 bacterial species in vitro, it showed that the oil has a manifest antiseptic activities, especially for skin pathogenic fungi and contaminative mould with MIC between 0.1-2.0 muL/mL.