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Plant 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.
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
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 *
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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
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.