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

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
LIMONENE	60	Pollen Or Spore	not available	6000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	6000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE	7	Plant	36.0	180.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOFURAN	5	Essential Oil	not available	500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOFURAN	5	Plant	not available	1.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOFURAN	5	Pollen Or Spore	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOL	63	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOL	63	Plant	6.0	30.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOL	63	Pollen Or Spore	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHONE	30	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHONE	30	Plant	36.0	420.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHONE	30	Pollen Or Spore	not available	14000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-SALICYLATE	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
METHYLCYCLOHEXANONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	30.0	150.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-3-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-3-OL	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-3-OL-ACETATE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTYLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionalytic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-92.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic	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.
Hepatoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Lewis, E.J. and Friedrich, E.C. 1989. The Essential Oil of Poliomintha incana. Planta Medica 56(2): 224-226, 1990.
Herbicide	7	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Herpetifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 158.
Hypotensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	5	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Insectifuge	13	Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.