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
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BOIS-DE-ROSE-OXIDE	0	Essential Oil	1.0	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-3-HEXENOL	1	Essential Oil	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-DEHYDROCITRONELLOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ROSE-OXIDE	0	Essential Oil	1.0	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL	53	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Plant	21.0	1176.0	2.12	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLYL-FORMATE	1	Essential Oil	1.0	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLYLDIETHYLAMINE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPAENE	1	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
Antilymphomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimutagenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antineuralgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosating	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive	1	Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antiobesity	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiodontalgic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antionychyotic	1	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Antiotitic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antioxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	2	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.