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
OCIMENE	2	Leaf	100.0	340.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	Leaf	0.0	18.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf	16.0	750.0	0.22	Duke, 1992 *
PENTACOSANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PENTADECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SABINENE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf	0.0	215.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-YL-ACETATE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINOLINE	0	Leaf	0.0	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRACOSANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TETRADECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TETROCOSANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THUJONE	17	Leaf	0.0	16.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-3-HEXENOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-LINALOOL-OXIDE	0	Leaf	0.0	18.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE	0	Leaf	210.0	715.0	1.55	Duke, 1992 *
TRICOSANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRIDECANE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
VERBENOL	0	Leaf	0.0	16.0	-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
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.