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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Seed Essent. Oil | 78000.0 | 191000.0 | 0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Aril | not available | 560.0 | not available | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Seed | not available | 460.0 | -0.45 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| BETA-TERPINEOL | 3 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL | 35 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL-ACETATE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL-ACETATE | 0 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | 9000.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORON | 4 | Seed | 3.0 | 13.0 | -0.53 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron). |
| BUTYRIC-ACID | 6 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Plant | not available | 16.0 | -1.08 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Aril | not available | 2400.0 | 1.03 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Seed | 1110.0 | 2000.0 | -0.39 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Aril | not available | 60.0 | not available | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| CAMPESTEROL | 2 | Seed | not available | 30.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Essential Oil | 2000.0 | 4000.0 | -0.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Seed | 80.0 | 640.0 | 0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHENE | 9 | Seed Essent. Oil | 2000.0 | 4000.0 | -0.10 | 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 * |