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
(+)-ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	16800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-ALPHA-TERPINEOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	20300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LIMONENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	5100.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-TERPINEN-4-OL	1	Essential Oil	not available	247300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ALPHA-PINENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	1800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ALPHA-TERPINEOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	6900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-LIMONENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-TERPINEN-4-OL	1	Essential Oil	not available	131300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,4-CINEOLE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,4-CINEOLE	0	Leaf	not available	0.0	-1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Essential Oil	30400.0	368000.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Leaf	260.0	16000.0	1.53	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Leaf Essent. Oil	29000.0	56000.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Root Essent. Oil	not available	25700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	6900.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Leaf	45.0	112.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	-1.00	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
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	8	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Spasmogenic	5	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Stimulant	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Surfactant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Testosterone-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	6	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide	1	Wealth of India.
Vulnerary	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-91.