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Common Names
Peppermint
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
Subspecies
nothosubsp. piperita
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MENTHONE | 30 | Plant | 20.0 | 10000.0 | 1.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MENTHOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MENTHYL-ACETATE | 2 | Leaf | 8.0 | 5080.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MENTHYL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Leaf | 0.0 | 0.1 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| MENTHYL-VALERATE | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| METHIONINE | 15 | Leaf | 530.0 | 2480.0 | -0.50 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| MINTLACTONE | 0 | Leaf | 0.3 | 3.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| MUFA | 13 | Leaf | 330.0 | 1545.0 | -0.58 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| MYRCENE | 22 | Leaf | 1.0 | 10.0 | -0.17 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRISTIC-ACID | 6 | Leaf | 60.0 | 280.0 | -0.55 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| MYRTENAL | 5 | Leaf | 0.0 | 0.0 | -0.66 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| MYRTENOL | 2 | Leaf | 0.5 | 5.0 | -0.41 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| NEO-ISOPULEGOL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOISOMENTHOL-ACETATE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOMENTHOL | 2 | Leaf | 33.0 | 820.0 | -0.55 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| NEOMENTHONE | 0 | Leaf | 70.0 | 700.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| NEOMENTHYL-ACETATE | 0 | Leaf | 15.0 | 150.0 | not available | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| NERAL | 4 | Leaf | 0.0 | 0.0 | -0.39 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| NEROL | 10 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEROLIDOL | 11 | Leaf | 0.1 | 0.5 | -0.72 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Glutathionigenic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gram(+)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GST-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hallucinogenic | 1 | 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. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemorrhagic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hemostat | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatocarcinogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatomagenic | 1 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatoregenerative | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Hepatotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotoxic | 5 | Lewis, E.J. and Friedrich, E.C. 1989. The Essential Oil of Poliomintha incana. Planta Medica 56(2): 224-226, 1990. |
| Hepatotropic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Herbicide | 12 | Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp. |
| Histamine-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histaminic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypercholesterolemic | 2 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |