Common Names
Myrtle; Myrte (Ger.); Arrayan (Sp.); Mirto (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MYRTENYL-2-METHYL-PROPIONATE | 0 | Plant | 8.0 | 12.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MYRTENYL-ACETATE | 1 | Leaf | 40.0 | 1000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MYRTENYL-ACETATE | 1 | Plant | 175.0 | 262.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MYRTOCOMMULON-A | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MYRTOCOMMULON-B | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MYRTOL | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
MYRTUCUMMULONE-A | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
NERAL | 4 | Shoot | 1.0 | 2.0 | -0.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
NEROL | 10 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
NEROLIDOL | 11 | Shoot | 0.0 | 5.0 | -0.40 | Duke, 1992 * |
NERYL-ACETATE | 5 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
OLEIC-ACID | 18 | 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. |
P-CYMEN-8-OL | 0 | Shoot | 0.0 | 1.0 | -0.17 | Duke, 1992 * |
P-CYMENE | 16 | Plant | 30.0 | 106.0 | -0.39 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | 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. |
PENTADECANE | 0 | Plant | 1.0 | 2.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
PERILLENE | 0 | Shoot | 0.0 | 2.5 | -0.36 | Duke, 1992 * |
PROPANOL | 0 | Shoot | 0.0 | 2.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
QUERCETIN-GLYCOSIDES | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
RESIN | 0 | Plant | 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. |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Anticoronary | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Antidermatitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antidiarrheic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antidiuretic | 1 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-92. |
Antidote (Strychnine) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antidysenteric | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
AntiEBV | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antieczemic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
Antiedemic | 4 | Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990. |
Antiemetic | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
Antiescherichic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiesophagitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antiestrogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antifatigue | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antifeedant | 13 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antifibrinolytic | 3 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |
Antifibromyalgic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Antifibrositic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Antiflu | 5 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195. |
Antigastric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |