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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
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
CALYPTOSIDE 1 Leaf *
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil 9000.0 -0.42 *
CAMPHENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 5100.0 -0.70 *
CAMPHENE 9 Shoot 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 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.
CAPROALDEHYDE 0 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Fruit Essent. Oil *
CARVONE 19 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Leaf Essent. Oil 167000.0 1.40 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf Essent. Oil 3000.0 -0.97 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Bark Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Wood Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CHRYSIN 60 Leaf *
CIS-TRANS-FARNESOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 99500.0 *
CITRAL 53 Fruit Essent. Oil *
CITRIODOROL 3 Plant *
CITRIODOROL 3 Resin, Exudate, Sap CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihelicobacter 2 (View) *
Antihematuric 1 (View) *
Antihemolytic 2 (View) Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihemorrhoidal 2 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic 1 (View) *
Antihepatotoxic 13 (View) *
Antiherpetic 15 (View) *
Antihistaminic 11 (View) *
AntiHIV 14 (View) *
Antihydrophobic 1 (View) Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypercholesterolemic 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperlipidemic 2 (View) *
Antihypertensive 3 (View) Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antihyperthyroid 3 (View) *
Antiinfarctal 1 (View) Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfertility 1 (View) *
Antiinflammatory 35 (View) Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiischemic 4 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilaryngitic 1 (View) *