CO2–extract of flagroot is an oily pasty light-brown (up to deep-brown) liquid with typical concentrated odour of raw flagroot. The extract can be dissolved in alcohol or oils, but cannot in water. Extract of flagroot contains more than 20 identified chemical compounds. Predominate are: unsaturated sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, higher-molecular compounds, and essential oils (asarone, boras camphor, etc). Also extract of flagroot contains organic acids, alcohol, phenol, tannin, resins, bitter glycoside, alkaloid calamine, choline, and trace elements.
CO2–extract of flagroot has antiseptic, antiinflammatory, and antispasmodic properties. Ancient healers used flagroot as contagion-protection at the epidemics of influenza, typhus and cholera.
Extract of flagroot can be widely used as an aromatizer: in food industry (can substitutes for cinnamon, nutmeg, and pepper), for aromatizing of beer and alcohol production; in perfumery industry: in hire-care preparations as restorative; in medicine: for healing of gastrointestinal tract, liver, urinary bladder, tuberculosis, rheumatism, for to soothe a toothache, and as restorative at central nervous system depression.