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

Common Names

Peru Balsam; Tolu Balsam

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
BENZYL-BENZOATE	17	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-CINNAMATE	4	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-CINNAMATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-FERULATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ISOFERULATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BOURBONENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADALENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMEIN	0	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID	18	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-BENZOATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMYL-CINNAMATE	1	Gum	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-OCIMENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN	57	Seed	not available	4000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
D-CADINENE	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAMMARADIENONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Respirodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Rodenticide	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Scabicide	1	Merck 11th Edition
Sedative	10	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Spasmogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sprout-Inhibitor	1	Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Sunscreen	1	Chemical Marketing Reporter; a weekly tabloid, 9/10/92.
Teratogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonistat	1	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.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Ulcerogenic	1	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *