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

Chemical ID

MYRISTICACID

Ubiquitous

Yes

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

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List of chemical activities.
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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
Cucurbita pepo	Seed	200.0	559.0	-0.3	Duke, 1992 *
Cucurbita spp	Fruit	10.0	160.0	-0.3	Duke, 1992 *
Cyamopsis tetragonoloba	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Varade, P. B., Misra, B. K., Sikka, K. C., Singh, S. P. 1984. Nutritive Assessment of Guar Oil (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub). J Agr Food Chem, 32(5): 1073-1075.
Cydonia oblonga	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Cynara cardunculus	Flower	20.0	135.0	-1.0	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
Cyperus rotundus	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Daucus carota	Root	10.0	80.0	-0.6	Duke, 1992 *
Daucus carota	Seed	10470.0	36300.0	0.2	Duke, 1992 *
Echinacea angustifolia	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Elaeis guineensis	Fruit	2300.0	48320.0	2.0	Duke, 1992 *
Elettaria cardamomum	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Elettaria cardamomum	Fruit	300.0	325.0	-0.3	Revised USDA data received 1993.
Erythrina crista-galli	Seed	not available	3175.0	-0.3	Duke, 1992 *
Eucalyptus globulus	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Fagopyrum esculentum	Seed	not available	115.0	-0.3	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
Fagopyrum esculentum	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Ferula assa-foetida	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	212300.0	1.0	Duke, 1992 *
Ficus carica	Fruit	20.0	96.0	-0.3	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
Frangula purshiana	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Fucus vesiculosus	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.