Chemical MYRISTIC-ACID | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Chemical ID

MYRISTICACID

Ubiquitous

Yes

List of known dosages
Dosage
LD50=43 (ivn mus)

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List of chemical activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Dosage	Reference
Antioxidant	IC71=60	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	not available	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Cosmetic	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	not available	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Lubricant	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Nematicide	not available	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.

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List of chemical plants.
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Plant Name	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
Vigna unguiculata	Shoot	10.0	98.0	-0.7	Duke, 1992 *
Vigna unguiculata	Seed	10.0	11.0	-0.3	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
Virola surinamensis	Seed	418200.0	496000.0	6.2	Duke, 1992 *
Viscum album	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Vitellaria paradoxa	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Adomako, D. 1977. Fatty Acid Composition and Characteristics of Pentadesma Butyracea Fat Extracted From Ghana Seeds. J. Sci. Food Agr. 28: 384-386.
Vitis vinifera	Fruit	50.0	257.0	-0.3	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis	Bark	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.
Zea mays	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Zingiber officinale	Rhizome	180.0	1650.0	-1.0	Duke, 1992 *
Zingiber officinale	Root	180.0	1650.0	1.7	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)