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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Mentha x piperita (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Peppermint
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
Subspecies
nothosubsp. piperita
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Plant 20.0 -0.47 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-THUJONE 6 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Plant *
ALUMINUM 5 Leaf 9.0 62.0 -0.71 *
AMYL-ALCOHOL 1 Plant *
AMYL-VALERATE 0 Leaf 0.1 1.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ANETHOLE 36 Leaf 0.0 0.0 -0.49 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
ARGININE 14 Plant 1730.0 8105.0 -0.60 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 30.0 201.0 -0.43 *
ASH 0 Leaf 21009.0 141000.0 0.39 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Leaf 4430.0 20750.0 -0.40 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
AZULENE 10 Plant Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Leaf 0.0 0.2 -1.04 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Leaf 0.0 0.1 -0.92 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BENZYL-CYANIDE 0 Leaf 0.0 0.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-BETULENOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 35.0 238.0 -0.10 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf 8.0 80.0 -0.30 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Calcium-Antagonist 9 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive 45 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 14 Economou, D., and Nahrstedt, A. 1991. Chemical, Physiological, and Toxicological Aspects of the Essential Oil of Some Species of the Genus Bystropogon*. Planta Medica, 57: 347, 1991.
Candidistat 3 *
Capillariprotective 1 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 6 *
Carcinogenic? 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiodepressant 3 *
Cardiomyopathogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective 13 *
Cardiotonic 3 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Carminative 7 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.
Catabolic 1 *
Cerebrotonic 1 *
Cerebrotoxic 2 J. Aromatherapy 4: 24.
Chelator 1 *
Chemopreventive 12 *