Plant Melaleuca alternifolia (Myrtaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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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
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	not available	0.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Leaf	not available	0.0	-0.25	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Leaf	0.0	154.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-MENTH-2-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-SABINENE-HYDRATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBENOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	5200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOHEXANONE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYMENENE	0	Leaf	not available	12.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	18600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	not available	1800.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYL-STYRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	1700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	10000.0	25000.0	1.18	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPIBICYCLOSESQUIPHELLANDRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	5100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPIGLOBULOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	1800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-ELEMENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	400.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-GURJUNENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Essential Oil	32000.0	211500.0	2.07	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiasthmatic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	15	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticariogenic	5	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticatarrh	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Wealth of India.
Antidysenteric	1	Wealth of India.
Antiedemic	2	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiemetic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiesophagitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifatigue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic	1	Martindale's 28th