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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Laurus nobilis (Lauraceae)

Common Names
Bayleaf; Sweet Bay; Grecian Laurel; Bay Laurel; Laurel; Bay
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Leaf Essent. Oil *
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Leaf Essent. Oil *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 130.0 2080.0 2.64 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 1600.0 54000.0 1.57 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf 1450.0 -0.29 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BICYCLOSESQUIPHELLANDRENE 0 Plant *
BOLDINE 29 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil 4700.0 -0.62 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Plant *
BORON 4 Leaf 9.0 16.0 -1.23 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BUTANAL 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BUTANOL 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CADINA-1(6),5-DIENE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Ecbolic 1 *
Edemagenic 1 *
Elastase-Inhibitor 1 *
Embryotoxic 1 *
Emetic 4 *
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 3 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterotoxic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Epileptigenic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Estrogenic 6 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 15 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Martindale's 29th
FLavor 43 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 31 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 4 *