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Common Names
American Pennyroyal
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| 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. |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Secretogogue | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Spermicide | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Surfactant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Thermogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonicide | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |