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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed Essent. Oil 106000.0 265000.0 1.09 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Essential Oil 14000.0 42000.0 0.40 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed 400.0 3200.0 2.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil 8000.0 40000.0 1.54 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil 6000.0 14000.0 -0.15 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed 120.0 9600.0 2.43 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed Essent. Oil 50000.0 77000.0 -0.25 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Seed Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 30000.0 1.00 *
AMYLODEXTRIN 0 Seed 250000.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ARSENIC 2 Seed 0.0 -0.74 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Essential Oil *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Seed *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Essential Oil 20000.0 0.63 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Seed Essent. Oil 34000.0 0.32 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 80000.0 150000.0 2.60 *
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List of plant activities.
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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 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 38 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
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 *
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 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 *
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 *
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.