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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
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Insecticide 15 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Insectifuge 27 Bowers, W.S., Ortego, F., You, X., and Evans, P.H. Insect Repellents From The Chinese Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Journal of Natural Products, 56(6): 935-938, 1993.
Insectifuge? 1 Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile 3 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 26 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.
Juvabional 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Lactagogue 1 *
Larvicide 5 Misra, L.N. and Singh, S.P. Alpha-Thujone, The Major Component Of The Essential Oil From Artemisia vulgaris Growing Wild In Nilgiri Hills. Journal of Natural Products, 49: 941, 1986.
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 4 *
Leptingenic 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