Coumarin

General information

The plant lactone coumarin (not to be confused with coumarin anticoagulants) is a constituent of some plants [ ], including:

• Alyxia lucida ;

• Anthoxanthum odoratum (vanilla grass);

• Dalea tuberculata (silver prairie clover);

• Dipteryx odorata (tonka bean);

• Gallium odoratum (sweet woodruff);

• Hierochloe odorata (sweet grass);

• Levisticum officinale (lovage);

• Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover);

• Scabiosa comosa (scabious);

• Verbascum spp (mullein);

• Cinnamomum aromaticum (cassia cinnamon);

• Panicum Clandestinum (deer's tongue).

Coumarin has no anticoagulant activity, but the molding of sweet clover can give it hemorrhagic potential by transforming coumarin to the anticoagulant dicoumarol.

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