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
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	1.0	2.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
NEOISOMENTHOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NERAL	4	Essential Oil	2.0	12.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	1.0	2.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ETHYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	2.0	8.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
PROPIONIC-ACID	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPYL-FORMATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINA-3,7(11)-DIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINA-4(14),7(11)-DIENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TIGLIC-ACID	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOLUENE	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-DEHYDROCITRONELLOL	0	Essential Oil	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 *