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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Hedeoma pulegioides (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
American Pennyroyal
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-ISOMENTHONE 0 Essential Oil *
(+)-PULEGONE 4 Essential Oil *
(+)-PULEGONE 4 Plant *
(-)-ALPHA-PINENE 0 Essential Oil *
(-)-LIMONENE 0 Essential Oil *
(-)-MENTHONE 2 Essential Oil *
(-)-MENTHONE 2 Plant 36.0 420.0 -1.00 *
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Plant 6.0 30.0 -0.55 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
1-METHYL-CYCLOHEXAN-3-ONE 0 Essential Oil *
1-METHYL-CYCLOHEXAN-3-ONE 0 Plant *
1-OCTEN-3-OL 0 Plant 48.0 240.0 0.07 *
3-OCTANOL 2 Plant 18.0 90.0 -0.47 *
3-OCTYL-ACETATE 0 Plant 18.0 90.0 -0.57 *
ACETIC-ACID 16 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Plant 30.0 150.0 0.69 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 24.0 210.0 -0.33 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Pollen Or Spore 4000.0 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 12.0 180.0 -0.24 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Pollen Or Spore 2000.0 *
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Pulifuge 1 *
Pulmonotoxic 2 De Smet, P.A.G.M., Keller, K., Hansel, R. and Chandler, R.F., eds. 1993. Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs 2. Springr-Verlag, Berlin. 348pp.
Radioprotective 1 *
Refrigerant 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.
Rubefacient 2 *
Secretogogue 1 *
Sedative 10 Ortiz de Urbina, A.V., Martin*, M.L., Montero, M.J., Moran, A., and San Roman, L. 1988. Sedating and Antipyretic Activity of the Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica subsp. Ascendens. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 25: 165-171, 1989.
Spasmogenic 3 *
Spermicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Surfactant 1 *
Termiticide 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *
Thermogenic 1 *
Tineacide 1 Martindale's 29th
Toxic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tranquilizer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 5 *
Trichomonicide 5 *