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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
GERANIOL-ACETATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Seed 20.0 160.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERMACRENE-D 2 Essential Oil *
GLUCOSE 7 Seed *
GLYCERYL-TRIMYRISTATE 0 Essential Oil *
GLYCERYL-TRIMYRISTATE 0 Fruit *
GLYCERYL-TRIMYRISTATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
GUAIACIN 0 Aril *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Seed *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID 1 Seed Essent. Oil *
HEXADECANOIC-ACID 0 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
IPURANOL 0 Seed *
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 *
ISOELEMICIN 3 Seed 150.0 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOEUGENOL 16 Essential Oil *
ISOEUGENOL 16 Seed 40.0 320.0 *
ISOEUGENOL 16 Seed Essent. Oil 1000.0 2000.0 *
ISOEUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Essential Oil *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 2 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tranquilizer 4 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 6 *
Tremorigenic 1 *
Trichomonicide 8 Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 3 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricosuric 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.