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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
BETA-COPAENE 0 Essential Oil *
BETA-IONONE 13 Leaf 0.3 3.0 -0.87 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 10.0 400.0 0.16 *
BETA-THUJONE 5 Essential Oil *
BETA-YLANGENE 0 Essential Oil *
BETAINE 14 Leaf *
BICYCLOELEMENE 0 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
BISABOLENE 0 Essential Oil Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BOVOLIDE 0 Leaf 0.0 0.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
BUTAN-2-ONE 0 Essential Oil 0.0 0.0 *
CADINENE 4 Essential Oil *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Shoot *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 2414.0 16200.0 -0.15 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf 2.0 25.0 -0.18 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 82993.0 557000.0 -0.44 *
CARVACROL 37 Essential Oil *
CARVEOL 1 Essential Oil *
CARVEOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
CARVONE 19 Leaf 4.0 132.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Essential Oil *
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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 *