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Chemical ID
CITRAL
Ubiquitous
No
| Dosage | Reference |
|---|---|
| LD50=4,960 (orl rat) | |
| ADI=500 ug/kg | Martindale's 28th |
| ADI=0.5 gm/kg |
| Activity | Dosage | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| NF-kB-Inhibitor | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NO-Inhibitor | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| P450-2B1-Inhibitor | IC50=1.19 uM | Duke, 1992 * |
| Perfumery | not available | Merck 11th Edition |
| Pesticide | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostatitigenic | 185 mg/kg/day/3 ms | Duke, 1992 * |
| Sedative | ED 1-32 mg/kg | Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176) |
| Sedative | 1 mg/kg | Duke, 1992 * |
| Teratogenic | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonicide | LD100=150 ug/ml | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trypanocide | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | ID50=1.5 mM | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | ID50=1,500 uM | Duke, 1992 * |
| Plant Name | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentha x rotundifolia | Shoot | 9.0 | 150.0 | 1.0 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Monarda citriodora | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Nepeta cataria | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ocimum basilicum | Essential Oil | not available | 700000.0 | 1.7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ocimum basilicum | Plant | 560.0 | 7000.0 | 0.0 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| Ocimum canum | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| Ocimum gratissimum | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Tramil |
| Ocimum tenuiflorum | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Origanum majorana | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Panax ginseng | Root Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Panax ginseng | Root | not available | not available | not available | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Pelargonium graveolens | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Perilla frutescens | Essential Oil | not available | 200000.0 | -0.1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Perilla frutescens | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| Pimenta racemosa | Leaf | 8000.0 | 31200.0 | 1.0 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| Pinus sylvestris | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| Piper nigrum | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| Psidium guajava | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| Rosa centifolia | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Rosa gallica | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |