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
POTASIUM	0	Fruit	11000.0	11410.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	11000.0	11410.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDINS	34	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	117000.0	134000.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-XYLOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	not available	0.7	-0.92	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	2.3	3.5	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Fruit	5.0	55.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Plant	not available	0.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
SELINA-3,11-DIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINA-4,11-DIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINE-4(14),11-DIENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	800.0	842.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
SPATHULENOL	0	Fruit	not available	60.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Fruit	not available	30.0	-0.76	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
STRONTIUM	0	Plant	not available	20.0	-0.88	Duke, 1992 *
T-MUUROLOL	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
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.