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

Common Names

Bayrum Tree; West Indian Bay

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
HENEICOSANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEPTADECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXACOSANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXADECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXANOL	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ISOEUGENOL	16	Leaf	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.
LEDENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LIMONENE	60	Leaf	140.0	6870.0	6.78	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Leaf	130.0	1020.0	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL	53	Leaf	130.0	1080.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-CHAVICOL	6	Leaf	30.0	12480.0	1.90	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Leaf	130.0	16770.0	1.72	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-HEPTENONE	0	Leaf	10.0	35.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MONOTERPENES	0	Leaf	2570.0	8740.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Leaf	735.0	23800.0	8.42	Duke, 1992 *
NERAL	4	Leaf	0.0	11080.0	2.65	Duke, 1992 *
NERIC-ACID	0	Leaf	0.0	32.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEROL	10	Leaf	0.0	110.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
NERYL-ACETATE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NONADECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	3	Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis., 4:203, 1982.
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	20	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	6	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticatarrh	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidermatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Wealth of India.
Antidote (Strychnine)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Wealth of India.
AntiEBV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	4	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.