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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
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Leaf *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Stem *
ELLAGITANNIN 8 Leaf *
ELLAGITANNINS 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ENGELETIN 0 Stem Bark 2.0 *
EO 0 Leaf 5000.0 35000.0 2.06 Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
EO 0 Shoot 21200.0 1.01 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.
EPIGLOBULOL 0 Leaf 28000.0 1.00 *
EPIGLOBULOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
EREMOPHILENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
ERIODICTYOL 10 Stem Bark 0.4 *
ERYTHRODIOL 0 Wood 10.0 *
ETHANOL 24 Leaf Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
EUCALYPTIN 0 Leaf *
EUCALYPTONE 7 Leaf 27.0 *
EUDESMOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
EUGLOBAL-IA1 0 Bud *
EUGLOBAL-IA1 0 Plant *
EUGLOBAL-IA2 0 Bud *
EUGLOBAL-IB 0 Bud *
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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) *