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

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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CALAMENENE 0 Plant 1.0 2.0 -0.76 *
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 8.0 30.0 -0.55 *
CAMPHOR 41 Plant 12.0 18.0 -0.64 *
CARVACROL 37 Plant 2.0 3.0 -0.87 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARVONE 19 Plant 8.0 12.0 -0.43 *
CARVYL-ACETATE-I 0 Shoot 0.4 130.0 *
CARVYL-ACETATE-II 0 Shoot 0.8 6.0 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Plant 3.0 4.0 -0.57 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Plant 2.0 3.0 -0.41 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CIS-MYRTENYL-ACETATE 0 Plant 8.0 12.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Shoot 2.0 8.5 -0.20 *
COPAENE 1 Plant 2.0 8.0 -0.78 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
D-LIMONENE 19 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
D-MYRTENOL 0 Plant Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
DELTA-3-CARENE 8 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Plant 8.0 12.0 -0.48 *
DIPENTENE 7 Plant *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
EO 0 Leaf 1000.0 5000.0 -0.57 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antigenotoxic 2 *
Antigingivitic 2 *
Antigliomic 1 *
Antiglutamaergic 1 *
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 *
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihalitosic 1 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihelicobacter 2 *
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 *
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 *
Antihyperthyroid 1 *
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 *
Antilaryngitic 1 *
Antileishmanic 3 *
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.