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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
CYSTINE 2 Leaf 410.0 1920.0 -0.84 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
DELTA-DODECALACTONE 1 Leaf 0.0 0.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DELTA-JASMINLACTONE 0 Leaf 0.1 0.5 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DIHYDRO-LIMONENE-10-OL 0 Essential Oil *
DIHYDRO-TERPINEOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf 0.0 0.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DIHYDROCARVONE 0 Leaf *
DIMETHYL-SULFOXIDE 1 Essential Oil *
DIOSPHENOL 4 Leaf 0.0 0.1 -1.41 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DIPENTENE 7 Essential Oil *
EO 0 Leaf 2980.0 30000.0 1.62 *
EO 0 Plant 1000.0 40000.0 2.30 *
ERIODICTYOL-7-O-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf 860.0 *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil *
EUPATORIN 8 Essential Oil *
FAT 0 Leaf 8046.0 54000.0 -0.05 *
FENCHENE 0 Essential Oil *
FIBER 15 Leaf 80000.0 370000.0 2.58 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 114000.0 -0.35 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 323000.0 -0.62 *
FOLATE 0 Leaf 1.0 5.0 -0.51 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Glutathionigenic 2 Martindale's 29th
Gram(+)icide 2 *
Gram(-)icide 2 *
GST-Inducer 1 *
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 *
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
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 *
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 *
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 *
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 *
Histaminic 1 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
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.)