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
Antitumor (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Pancreas)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	6	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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antivulvitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiyeast	2	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
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	1	Merck 11th Edition
Barbituate-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardic	1	Martindale's 28th
Bronchomucolytic	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Bronchomucotropic	1	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.
Bronchoprotectant	1	Duke, 1992 *