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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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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 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf 150.0 1900.0 -0.10 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant 242.0 1420.0 0.52 *
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Plant 0.0 1.0 -0.96 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Shoot 0.0 4.0 -0.47 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf 20.0 600.0 0.46 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Plant 58.0 88.0 -0.41 *
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 *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Plant 4.0 6.0 -0.59 *
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 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Plant 3.0 4.0 -0.46 *
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 *
BORNEOL 35 Plant Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Plant 12.0 18.0 -0.46 *
BUTYL-2-METHYLBUTYRATE 0 Plant 0.0 1.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CALACORENE 0 Plant Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor 11 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Breast) 2 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antitumor (Colon) 2 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 2 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 1 *
Antitumor (Skin) 1 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 4 *
Antitussive 3 *
Antiulcer 9 Yamahara, J., et al. Stomachic principles in ginger. II. Pungent and anti-ulcer effects of low polar constituents isolated from ginger, the dried rhizoma of... Yakugaku Zasshi 112: 645-655 (1992).
Antivaginitic 1 *
Antiviral 16 *
Antiyeast 3 *
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic 6 *
Ascaricide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Astringent 2 Martindale's 29th
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.