Plant Myristica fragrans (Myristicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mace; Nutmeg; Muskatnussbaum (Ger.); nogal moscado (Sp.); nuez moscada (Sp.)

How this plant is used

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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
GERANIOL-ACETATE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Seed	20.0	160.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERMACRENE-D	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERYL-TRIMYRISTATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERYL-TRIMYRISTATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERYL-TRIMYRISTATE	0	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACIN	0	Aril	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADECANOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
IPURANOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Aril	126.0	140.0	0.80	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
IRON	6	Seed	30.0	45.0	-0.49	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISO-TRANS-EUGENOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOELEMICIN	3	Seed	not available	150.0	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOEUGENOL	16	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL	16	Seed	40.0	320.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL	16	Seed Essent. Oil	1000.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOEUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	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
(-)-Chronotropic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	7	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	10	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	19	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphetaminagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.