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Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPHA-YLANGENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Essential Oil | not available | 20000.0 | -1.41 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | 30000.0 | 1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA OPLOPENTONE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-BOURBONENE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-FARNESENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-HUMULENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CALAMENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARYOPHYLLA-4(14)-8(15)-DIEN-5-ALPHA-OL | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE | 8 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Hypothermic | 4 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Immunomodulator | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Immunostimulant | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124. |
| Insecticide | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insectifuge | 8 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Insectiphile | 1 | J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986. |
| Interleukin-6-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Irritant | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Juvabional | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Lactagogue | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Larvicide | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Leucocytogenic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124. |
| Lipolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Litholytic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Mosquitocide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Mosquitofuge | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Motor-Depressant | 2 | Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC |
| Mutagenic | 4 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |