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

Common Names

Cajeput

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
KAEMPFEROL-7-GLUCOSIDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROLIDOL	11	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCIMERETRIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICA	0	Wood	2000.0	9500.0	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
TARAXASTERONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UVAOL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERALDEHYDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
VIRIDIFLOROL	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allelochemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.