Common Names
Mace; Nutmeg; Muskatnussbaum (Ger.); nogal moscado (Sp.); nuez moscada (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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NEROL | 10 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
NEROL-ACETATE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
OCTANOIC-ACID | 5 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
OLEANOLIC-ACID | 64 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | 13000.0 | 176000.0 | 0.47 | Duke, 1992 * |
OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
P-COUMARIC-ACID | 25 | Seed | not available | 7.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
P-CYMEN-8-OL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
P-CYMENE | 16 | Essential Oil | 5000.0 | 8000.0 | -0.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
P-CYMENE | 16 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
P-CYMENE | 16 | Seed | 120.0 | 960.0 | -0.48 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
P-CYMENE | 16 | Seed Essent. Oil | 6000.0 | 43000.0 | 0.48 | Duke, 1992 * |
P-MENTH-CIS-2-EN-1-OL | 0 | Essential Oil | 1000.0 | 3000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
P-MENTH-CIS-2-EN-1-OL | 0 | Seed Essent. Oil | 1000.0 | 4000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
P-MENTH-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
P-MENTH-TRANS-2-ENE-1,4-DIOL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Seed | 25000.0 | 128000.0 | 1.94 | Duke, 1992 * |
PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
PECTIN | 24 | Seed | 5000.0 | 6000.0 | -0.98 | Duke, 1992 * |
PENTADECANOIC-ACID | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Antiatheromic | 1 | Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990. |
Antiatherosclerotic | 5 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Antibacillary | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antibackache | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Antibacterial | 38 | Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994. |
Antiberiberi | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
AntiBPH | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antibronchitic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Anticancer | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticancer (Breast) | 1 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
Anticancer (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticancer (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticancer (Pancreas) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticanker | 3 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Anticarcinogenic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
Anticarcinomic | 1 | Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46. |
Anticarcinomic (Breast) | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
Anticardiospasmic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Anticariogenic | 8 | Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105. |
Anticarpal-Tunnel | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |