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Plant Hedeoma pulegioides (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
American Pennyroyal
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PIPERITENONE 3 Plant 1.0 1410.0 -0.14 Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITENONE 3 Pollen Or Spore not available 47000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE 7 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE 7 Plant 12.0 270.0 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
PIPERITONE 7 Pollen Or Spore not available 9000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PUGELONE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Leaf 17.0 50.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Plant 3678.0 27600.0 2.41 Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Pollen Or Spore not available 823000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PULEGONE 28 Stem 0.5 3.8 not available Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE 5 Plant 18.0 90.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insectiphile 4 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Irritant 10 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Keratitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Larvicide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor 1 Critchfield, J. W., Welsh, C. J., Phang, J. M., Yeh, G. C. 1994. Modulation of Adriamycin Accumulation and Efflux by Flavonoids in HCT-15 Colon Cells. Activation of P-Glycoprotein as a Putative Mechanism. Biochem Pharmacol, 48(7): 1437-1445.
Mosquitocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant 2 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Mutagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant 4 Martindale's 29th
Nematicide 8 Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Nematistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nephrotoxic 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurodepressant 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.