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
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf	1154.0	3000.0	5.41	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	204000.0	1.94	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Root Essent. Oil	not available	135400.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	8000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	1100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOL	3	Leaf	not available	0.0	-0.81	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HUMULENE	2	Leaf	0.0	12.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Essential Oil	9000.0	43000.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf	100.0	250.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	9000.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Root Essent. Oil	not available	18700.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Leaf	10.0	25.0	-0.43	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALOOL	53	Essential Oil	not available	3000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Leaf	10.0	25.0	-0.63	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALOOL	53	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTH-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHATRIENES	0	Leaf	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	8000.0	14000.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiflu	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihelicobacter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiinflammatory	7	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.
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antilithic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic	2	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antimalarial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimange	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimite	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antineuralgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antinitrosaminic	3	Duke, 1992 *