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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Peumus boldus (Monimiaceae)

Common Names
Boldo
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TANNINS 0 Leaf Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf 120.0 650.0 0.03 *
TERPINOLINE 0 Leaf 80.0 100.0 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THYMOL 71 Leaf 5.0 18.0 -0.41 *
THYMYL-ACETATE 6 Leaf 1.6 9.0 *
TRANS-CARVYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf 6.0 24.0 -1.00 *
TRANS-PINOCARVEOL 2 Leaf 105.0 360.0 0.84 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimutagenic 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimycoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antineuralgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antineuritic 1 *
Antinitrosaminic 1 *
Antinitrosating 1 *
Antinociceptive 2 *
Antiobesity 2 *
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 11 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antioxidant (LDL) 2 *
Antipeptic 2 *
Antiperiodontic 1 *
Antiperoxidant 1 *
Antipharyngitic 1 *
Antiplaque 3 Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21
Antiplasmodial 3 Rukunga, G. and Simons, A. J. 2006. The Potential of Plants as a Source of Antimalarial Agents - A Review. Africa Herbal Antimalaria Meeting. PlantaPhile Publications, Berlin. 72 pp.
Antipneumonic 1 *
Antiproliferant 1 *