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Plant Canarium indicum (Burseraceae)

Common Names
Java-Olive; Manila Elemi
How this plant is used
Food
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
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed not available 136210.0 0.25 Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed not available 5099.0 -0.49 Duke, 1992 *
MANILADIOL 0 Gum not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Essential Oil 300.0 750.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil 2400.0 6000.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available 290632.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Essential Oil 1500.0 3750.0 -0.60 Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed not available 222162.0 3.88 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 195700.0 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Gum not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed not available 74297.0 1.05 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL 18 Gum not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Essential Oil 600.0 1500.0 -0.38 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-P-MENTH-1(7),5-DIEN-2-OL 0 Essential Oil 300.0 750.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Seed not available 37600.0 -0.73 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiallergic 1 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 10 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticatarrh 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticholinesterase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoronary 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidepressant 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antidote (Strychnine) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.