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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
LEUCINE 2 Leaf 2810.0 13160.0 -0.52 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LIMONENE 60 Leaf 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 *
LIMONENE-10-OL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
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 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Leaf *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf 120.0 *
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 *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 0.9 6.1 -0.45 *
MENTHACUBANONE 0 Shoot *
MENTHOCUBANONE 0 Shoot *
MENTHOFURAN 5 Plant 0.0 2800.0 -0.21 *
MENTHOFURAN 5 Ay 0.0 2200.0 *
MENTHOKUBANONE 0 Shoot *
MENTHOL 63 Leaf 156.0 20000.0 1.71 *
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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.)