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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Eucalyptus globulus (Myrtaceae)

Common Names
Blue Gum, Eucalypt, Tasmanian Bluegum
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-DIKETONE 0 Leaf Wax 560000.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Shoot 0.1 -0.34 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.
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 13000.0 1.00 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Essential Oil *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Fruit Essent. Oil 34300.0 -0.64 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Leaf Essent. Oil 36000.0 2.05 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 2000.0 -0.69 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 3900.0 5000.0 -0.78 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Shoot 7000.0 0.37 *
BETA-TERPINENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BETA-THUJONE 5 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BETULIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Wood 14.0 *
BORNEOL 35 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil 2000.0 -0.66 *
BORNEOL 35 Shoot 3000.0 2.50 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BUTYRALDEHYDE 2 Leaf Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Inhalant 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 3 (View) *
Inotropic 2 (View) *
Insect-Repellent 1 (View) *
Insecticide 11 (View) *
Insectifuge 26 (View) Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectiphile 6 (View) Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interferonogenic 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 3 (View) *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 21 (View) *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Juvabional 5 (View) Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 6 (View) Misra, L.N. and Singh, S.P. Alpha-Thujone, The Major Component Of The Essential Oil From Artemisia vulgaris Growing Wild In Nilgiri Hills. Journal of Natural Products, 49: 941, 1986.
Larvistat 3 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 3 (View) Martindale's 29th
Leucocytogenic 2 (View) *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 (View) *