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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Mentha arvensis var. piperascens (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Cornmint; Field Mint; Japanese Mint
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(-)-MENTHOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf 10.0 32.0 *
(-)-MENTHONE 2 Leaf 500.0 4400.0 -0.41 *
(-)-PIPERITENONE-OXIDE 0 Leaf 3330.0 10595.0 *
(-)-PIPERITONE 1 Leaf 240.0 7700.0 1.00 *
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
1-P-MENTHEN-3-ONE 0 Plant Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
3',4',5,7-TETRAHYDROXY-FLAVONE-7-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
3',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-4'-METHOXY-FLAVONE-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
3(5',5'-DIMETHYL-TETRAHYDROFURAN-2'-YL)-BUT-CIS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil 1.4 -0.71 Jim Duke's personal files.
3(5',5'-DIMETHYL-TETRAHYDROFURAN-2'-YL)-BUT-CIS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Plant 1.4 *
3-METHYLPENTANOL 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
4',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-FLAVONE-7-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
4',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-FLAVONE-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ACACETIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ACETIC-ACID 16 Plant Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
ACETYLMENTHOL 0 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ALPHA,BETA-HEXENIC-ACID 0 Plant Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
ALPHA,GAMMA-HEXENYL-PHENYL-ACETATE 0 Plant Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 10.0 300.0 -0.27 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiprostaglandin 3 *
Antiprostatitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproteolytic 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Antipruritic 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipulmonotic 1 Tyler, V.E.. 1994.
Antipyretic 3 *
Antiradicular 4 *
AntiRaynaud's 1 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 4 Martindale's 28th
Antirhinitic 1 *
AntiRNA 1 *
Antisalmonella 4 *
Antiseptic 13 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antishock 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisinusitic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 14 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.