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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Antifibrositic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antifibrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiflu | 5 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195. |
| Antifuruncular | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antigallstone | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastric | 1 | Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85. |
| Antigastritic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigenotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiglutamaergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglycosuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antigonadotropic | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiGTF | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihalitosic | 1 | American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993. |
| Antihangover | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |