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Plant Callicarpa americana (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
American Beauty Berry; Beauty Berry; French Mulberry
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CIS-LINALOOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf not available 0.6 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
CIS-P-MENTH-1,5-DIEN-8-OL 0 Leaf not available 0.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-P-MENTH-2-EN-1-OL 0 Leaf not available 0.6 -0.90 Duke, 1992 *
CUBENOL 0 Leaf not available 7.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Leaf 5.0 6.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
ENDOFENCHOL 0 Leaf not available 0.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
EPI-ALPHA-CADINOL 0 Leaf not available 7.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Leaf not available 3.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE 0 Leaf not available 8.0 -0.73 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf not available 1.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
HEXANAL 5 Leaf 5.0 6.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE-EPOXIDE-II 0 Leaf not available 155.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
KHUSINOL 0 Leaf not available 3.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Leaf not available 4.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Leaf not available 3.0 -0.65 Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENAL 5 Leaf not available 2.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENOL 2 Leaf not available 0.6 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXANOL 0 Leaf not available 3.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
N-NONANAL 5 Leaf not available 0.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
NOPINONE 0 Leaf not available 1.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Prooxidant 1 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Secretogogue 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sedative 9 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Spasmogenic 5 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Surfactant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 5 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 3 Duke, 1992 *
Tumor-Promoter 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary 1 Duke, 1992 *