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Plant Myroxylon balsamum (Flacourtiaceae)

Common Names
Peru Balsam; Tolu Balsam
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antipseudomonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac 1 Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antipyretic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 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.
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antisalmonella 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antisarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antisickling 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmodic 9 Duke, 1992 *
Antistaphylococcic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antistreptococcic 3 Duke, 1992 *
AntiTGF-beta 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antithrombic 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
AntiTNF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.