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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
CITRONELLAL 20 Leaf Essent. Oil *
CITRONELLAL 20 Shoot 0.1 -0.22 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.
CITRONELLIC-ACID 0 Shoot 0.1 -0.23 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.
CITRONELLOL 15 Leaf Essent. Oil 136000.0 -0.40 *
CITRONELLOL 15 Shoot 0.1 -0.18 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.
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Shoot 0.1 -0.23 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.
CRYPTONE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 86000.0 167000.0 1.00 *
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Leaf 25.0 135.0 0.27 *
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Shoot 0.1 -0.33 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.
D-CATECHOL 0 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-CATECHOL 0 Wood Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-LINALOL 0 Leaf *
D-LINALOOL 0 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
D-MYRTENAL 0 Leaf *
D-MYRTENOL 0 Leaf Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
D-VERBENONE 0 Leaf Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
DAUCOSTEROL 5 Wood 6.0 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil *
DIEPIPALUSTROL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Bark *
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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).