Plant Laurus nobilis (Lauraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Bayleaf; Sweet Bay; Grecian Laurel; Bay Laurel; Laurel; Bay

How this plant is used

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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
(+)-ACTINODAPHNINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-ACTINODAPHNINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-ACTINODAPHNINE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-BOLDINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CRYPTODORINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-ISODOMESTICINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LAUNOBINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LAUNOBINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LAUNOBINE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LIMONENE	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	29000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LINALOOL	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-N-METHYL-ACTINODAPHNINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-NANDIGERINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-NEOLITSINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-NOR-ISODOMESTICINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-RETICULINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-RETICULINE	0	Stem Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	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
Oxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	4	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Pancreatogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paramecicide	1	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Pediculicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery	38	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	74	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.