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Plant Pimenta racemosa (Myrtaceae)

Common Names
Bayrum Tree; West Indian Bay
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
(E)-ANETHOLE 0 Leaf 0.0 32.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
(E)-OCIMENE 0 Leaf 0.0 65.0 -0.53 Duke, 1992 *
(E,E)-ALPHA-FARNESENE 0 Leaf 0.0 36.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
(Z)-OCIMENE 0 Leaf 0.0 16.0 1.41 Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Leaf 0.0 680.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
1-OCTEN-3-OL 0 Leaf 100.0 440.0 3.15 Duke, 1992 *
1-OCTEN-3-YL-ACETATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
2,3-DEHYDRO-1,8-CINEOLE 0 Leaf 0.0 16.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-OCTANOL 2 Leaf 30.0 540.0 2.00 Duke, 1992 *
3-OCTANONE 0 Leaf 0.0 340.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
6-METHYL-HEPT-5-EN-2-ONE 0 Leaf 0.0 48.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMORPHENE 0 Leaf 10.0 35.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CADINENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-CADINOL 3 Leaf 0.0 36.0 1.78 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Leaf 0.0 70.0 0.06 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-CUBEBINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CYCLOCITRAL 0 Leaf 0.0 32.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GURJUNENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf 0.0 36.0 -0.41 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
Carminative 4 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-3-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cerebrodepressant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive 4 Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant 1 Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Stimulant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Coleoptophile 1 Duke, 1992 *
Convulsant 3 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 3 Martindale's 28th
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Culicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytotoxic 4 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Decongestant 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.