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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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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
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Fruit *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Fruit Essent. Oil 90000.0 *
CINNAMIC-ACID 18 Leaf *
CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 172000.0 *
CINNAMYL-ACETATE 3 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-3-HEXANOL 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-3-HEXENOL 1 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-ALPHA-BISABOLENE 0 Plant *
CIS-OCIMENE 3 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-P-MENTH-2-EN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
CIS-P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Leaf *
CIS-THUJ-2-EN-4-OL 0 Leaf *
CITRAL 53 Fruit Essent. Oil *
CITRAL 53 Leaf *
COPPER 12 Leaf 4.0 -0.65 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
COSTUNOLIDE 9 Fruit 2560.0 *
COSTUNOLIDE 9 Leaf 1191.0 18000.0 *
COSTUNOLIDE 9 Root 3100.0 *
CUBEBENE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Termiticide 4 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 4 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tracheorelaxant 2 *
Tranquilizer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 7 *
Trematodicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Trichomonicide 10 *
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide 1 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 6 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.