Hyssop flower |
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pharmaceutical | Herba Hyssopi |
Albanian | Hisop mjekësor, Hisopi mjekësor |
Arabic | زوفا |
زُوفَا | |
Zufa | |
Aramaic | ܐܝܙܘܒ݂, ܐܣܘܦܘܣ, ܙܘܦ |
Ezov, Esopus, Sup | |
Breton | Sikadez |
Bulgarian | Исоп, Калам |
Isop, Kalam | |
Chinese (Cantonese) | 牛膝草 [ngàu sāt chóu], 神香草 [sàhn hēung chóu] |
Ngau sat chou, Sahn heung chou | |
Chinese (Mandarin) | 牛膝草 [niú xī cǎo], 神香草 [shén xiāng cǎo] |
Niu xi cao, Shen xiang cao | |
Coptic | ⲥⲧⲟⲓ |
Stoi (?) | |
Croatian | Ljekoviti miloduh |
Czech | Yzop, Yzop lékařský |
Danish | Isop |
Dutch | Hyssop, Ipse, Paddekruid, Ysop |
Esperanto | Hisopo, Oficina hisopo |
Estonian | Harilik iisop |
Farsi | زوفا |
Zoufa | |
Finnish | Iisoppi |
French | Hysope, Herbe sacrée, Hyssope |
Gaelic | Isop |
Galician | Hisopo |
German | Eisop, Joseph, Kirchenseppl, Ysop |
Greek | Ήσσωπος |
Issopos | |
Greek (Old) | Ὕσσωπος |
Hyssopos | |
Hebrew | אזוב |
אֵזוֹב | |
Esov, Ezov | |
Hungarian | Izsóp |
Icelandic | Ísópur |
Italian | Issopo, Ossopo |
Japanese | ヒソップ |
Hissopu | |
Korean | 하솝, 히서프, 히솝, 우슬초 |
Hasop, Hiseopu, Hisop, Usulcho | |
Lao | ໄຮຊອບ |
Haisop | |
Latin | Hysopum, Ysopus |
Latvian | Ārstniecības izops |
Lithuanian | Vaistinis isopas |
Norwegian | Isop |
Polish | Hyzop lekarski |
Portuguese | Hissopo |
Provençal | Mariarmo |
Romanian | Isop |
Russian | Иссоп |
Issop | |
Sanskrit | Jufa |
Serbian | Изоп |
Izop | |
Slovak | Yzop lekársky |
Slovenian | Izop, Ožepek |
Spanish | Hisopo |
Swedish | Isop |
Turkish | Çördük otu, Zufa otu |
Ukrainian | Ісоп звичайний, Гісоп лікарський |
Isop zvichajnyj, Hisop likarski | |
Urdu | زوفہ |
Zufa | |
Vietnamese | Cỏ ngưu tất |
Co nguu tat | |
Yiddish | אזובֿ |
Ezev |
Pink hyssop |
Hyssop inflorescence |
All aerial parts of the plant (stem, leaves, flowers) are used together. The dried plant is less aromatic than the fresh one.
Lamiaceae (mint family).
Aromatic and slightly bitter.
The content of essential oil is rather low (0.3 to 0.9%); it is mostly composed
of cineol, β-pinene and a variety of bicyclic monoterpene derivatives
(L-pinocamphene, isopinocamphone, pinocarvone).
For more information on bitter taste, see zedoary.
Mediterranean.
The Greek plant name hyssopos [ὕσσωπος]
is probably derived from Old Hebrew
esob [אזוב]
(mentioned in the Bible, see pomegranate),
although esob most probably
referred to a local variety of marjoram, not
the plant called hyssop today. Probably, Arabic
az-zufa [الزوفا
Indian Spices: Hyssop (india
As many other plant of the mint family, hyssop contains rather large amounts
of bitter and antioxidative tannines: Phenols with a diterpenoid skeleton
(carnosol, carnosolic acid), depsides of coffeic acid
(= 3,4-
Hyssop flowers
Hyssop flowers (albino)
the hyssop
belongs to the same kin; cf. also modern Kurdish zufa [زووفا].
Hyssop flower |