Plant Pelargonium graveolens (Geraniaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Rose Geranium; Scented Geranium

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
DECYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYL-SULFIDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	800.0	4000.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
EPOXYLINALOL	0	Essential Oil	1.0	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTERS	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHANOL	24	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURAN	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURAPELAGONE-A	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURAPELAGONE-B	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-MUUROLENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIAL	13	Essential Oil	2.0	12.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	Plant	2.0	1400.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-TIGLATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRATRIENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIA-6,9-DIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antiaflatoxin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	3	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillary	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacillus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	21	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic	2	Martindale's 28th
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	4	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticonvulsant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidandruff	1	A.L.L. Hunting. Encyclopedia of Shampoo Ingredients. Micelle Press, Cranford NJ. 467 pp.
Antidermatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *