Plant Myrtus communis (Myrtaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Myrtle; Myrte (Ger.); Arrayan (Sp.); Mirto (Sp.)

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ALPHA-P-DIMETHYL-STYRENE	0	Plant	0.0	1.0	-1.00	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Shoot	1.0	10.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Leaf	150.0	1900.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Plant	242.0	1420.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SELINENE	3	Plant	0.0	1.0	-0.96	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Shoot	0.0	4.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf	20.0	600.0	0.46	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Plant	58.0	88.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	58.0	88.0	-0.42	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Shoot	2.0	18.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
AR-CURCUMENE	3	Plant	4.0	6.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE	6	Plant	0.0	1.0	-0.65	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Shoot	7.0	40.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Plant	3.0	4.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Plant	2.0	8.0	-0.43	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-SELINENE	3	Plant	0.0	1.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Plant	12.0	18.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYL-2-METHYLBUTYRATE	0	Plant	0.0	1.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CALACORENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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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
Antigenotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigliomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	1	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihelicobacter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	2	Okuda, T., Yoshida, T., and Hatano, T. Antioxidant Effects of Tannins and Related Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.7 p.93.
Antiherpetic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
AntiHIV	4	Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991.
Antihypertensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	18	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.
Antikeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	1	Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.