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

Common Names

Peppermint

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

Subspecies

nothosubsp. piperita

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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
LEUCINE	2	Leaf	2810.0	13160.0	-0.52	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LIMONENE	60	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
LIMONENE	60	Leaf	2.0	320.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE-10-OL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Leaf	12.0	120.0	-0.37	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
LINALOOL	53	Leaf	12.0	120.0	-0.56	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Leaf	690.0	3230.0	-0.84	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Leaf	4350.0	20375.0	-0.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LITHOSPERMIC-ACID	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN	78	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-RUTINOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Leaf	1610.0	7540.0	-1.21	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	985.0	6610.0	0.96	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	0.9	6.1	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHACUBANONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOCUBANONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOFURAN	5	Plant	0.0	2800.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOFURAN	5	Ay	0.0	2200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOKUBANONE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MENTHOL	63	Leaf	156.0	20000.0	1.71	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
Convulsant	3	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.
Copper-Antagonist	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
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant	3	Duke, 1992 *
COX-1-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Culicide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytoprotective	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	8	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Decongestant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Decongestant?	1	Eccles, R., et al. 1989. The effects of oral administration of (-)-menthol on nasal resistance to airflow and nasal sensation of airflow in subjects suffering from nasal congestion associated with the common cold. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 652-654, 1990.
Degranulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dentifrice	2	Martindale's 29th
Deodorant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.