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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
Anticancer (Esophagus) 1 (View) Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Mouth) 1 (View) Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 (View) *
Anticapillary-Fragility 3 (View) Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 4 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 4 (View) *
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 (View) Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic 19 (View) Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract 6 (View) Shimizu, M., Horie, S., Terashima, S., Ueno, H., et al. 1989. Studies on Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Natural Products.II. Active Components of a Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Para-parai mi,' Phyllanthus niruri. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 37(9): 2531-2532, 1989.
Anticatarrh 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Anticholestatic 1 (View) Shukla, B., Visen, P.K.S., Patnaik, G.K., Tripathi, S.C., Srimal, R.C., Dayal, R., and Dobhal, P.C. Hepatoprotective Activity in the Rat of Ursolic Acid Isolated from Eucalyptus Hybrid. Phytotherapy Research 6: 74-79, 1992.
Anticholinesterase 3 (View) *
Anticlastogen 2 (View) *
Anticoagulant 1 (View) *
Anticolic 1 (View) *
Anticolitic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).