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

Common Names
Mace; Nutmeg; Muskatnussbaum (Ger.); nogal moscado (Sp.); nuez moscada (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food

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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
SAFROLE 29 Seed Essent. Oil 1000.0 60000.0 *
SALICYLATES 7 Aril 30.0 320.0 *
SALICYLATES 7 Seed 2.0 25.0 -0.21 *
SCLAREOL 5 Seed Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
SODIUM 1 Aril 800.0 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SODIUM 1 Seed 109.0 160.0 -0.46 *
STARCH 5 Aril 317000.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STARCH 5 Seed 300000.0 -0.04 Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed Essent. Oil *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Aril 110.0 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed 130.0 -0.37 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil 30000.0 63000.0 0.00 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed 600.0 4800.0 1.92 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Seed Essent. Oil 30000.0 247000.0 1.73 *
TERPINEN-4-OL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil 1000.0 2000.0 -1.00 *
TERPINEN-4-OL-ACETATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 1000.0 *
TERPINEN-4-YL-ACETATE 0 Seed 20.0 160.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINEOL 18 Seed Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
TERPINOLENE 9 Essential Oil 10000.0 17000.0 -0.27 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 *
Ovulant 1 *
Oxytocic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Ozone-Scavenger 1 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 4 *
P450-Inducer 4 *
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Pancreatogenic 1 *
Paralytic 1 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Pediculicide 2 Merck 11th Edition
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery 33 Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic 2 *
Pesticide 60 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 1 *
Pheromone 1 *