Plant Pimenta dioica (Myrtaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Allspice; Jamaica-Pepper; Pimenta; Clover-Pepper; Pimento

How this plant is used

Food

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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
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Plant	not available	0.8	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
LEDENE	0	Fruit	not available	237.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEDOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Fruit	not available	28.0	-0.75	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf	not available	15.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Leaf	not available	5.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Fruit	not available	42.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Leaf	not available	5.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	1200.0	1480.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MANGANESE	14	Bud	29.0	70.0	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MERCURY	1	Plant	not available	0.1	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-BENZOATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-CHAVICOL	6	Fruit	not available	60.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-CHAVICOL	6	Leaf	not available	3.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Fruit	not available	1500.0	-1.00	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
Anthelmintic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	2	Merck 11th Edition
AntiAGE	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 343.
Antiaging	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	4	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic	6	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.