Plant Eucalyptus citriodora (Myrtaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lemon Eucalyptus; Lemon-Scented Gum; Spotted Gum; Citron-Scented Gum

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf	20.0	300.0	0.01	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	11600.0	17000.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Shoot	not available	17000.0	1.07	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	17.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETULINIC-ACID	22	Root	not available	167.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Shoot	not available	0.1	-0.40	Zrira, S. S., Benjilali, B. B., Fechtal, M. M., & Richard, H. H. 1991. Essential Oils of Twenty-seven Eucalyptus Species Grown in Morocco. Journal of Essential Oil Res. 4: 259-264.
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	1.0	20.0	-0.19	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Shoot	not available	0.1	-0.13	Zrira, S. S., Benjilali, B. B., Fechtal, M. M., & Richard, H. H. 1991. Essential Oils of Twenty-seven Eucalyptus Species Grown in Morocco. Journal of Essential Oil Res. 4: 259-264.
CAMPHOLENIC-ALDEHYDE	0	Shoot	not available	0.1	-0.31	Zrira, S. S., Benjilali, B. B., Fechtal, M. M., & Richard, H. H. 1991. Essential Oils of Twenty-seven Eucalyptus Species Grown in Morocco. Journal of Essential Oil Res. 4: 259-264.
CARVONE	19	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf	15.0	780.0	-0.23	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	28000.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-1.34	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
Antiplatelet	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antirheumatalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	21	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiserotonin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.