Plant Myroxylon balsamum (Flacourtiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Peru Balsam; Tolu Balsam

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Download these results as:

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
RESIN	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STYRENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUMARESINOLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	4000.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
TOLURESINOTANNOL-CINNAMATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URS-12-EN-3-ON-28-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	not available	46000.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
WAX	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

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
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenergic	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.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic	14	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	5	Merck 11th Edition
Anesthetic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 343.
Antiallergic	2	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antiandrogenic	1	Planta Medica, 56(6): 671, 1990.
Antianemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Duke, 1992 *