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

Common Names
Bayrum Tree; West Indian Bay
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
HENEICOSANE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEPTADECANE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXACOSANE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXADECANE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXANOL 3 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ISOEUGENOL 16 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
LEDENE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LIMONENE 60 Leaf 140.0 6870.0 6.78 *
LINALOL 0 Leaf 130.0 1020.0 0.16 *
LINALOOL 53 Leaf 130.0 1080.0 0.10 *
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Leaf 30.0 12480.0 1.90 *
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Leaf 130.0 16770.0 1.72 *
METHYL-HEPTENONE 0 Leaf 10.0 35.0 *
MONOTERPENES 0 Leaf 2570.0 8740.0 1.00 *
MYRCENE 22 Leaf 735.0 23800.0 8.42 *
NERAL 4 Leaf 0.0 11080.0 2.65 *
NERIC-ACID 0 Leaf 0.0 32.0 *
NEROL 10 Leaf 0.0 110.0 0.08 *
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
NONADECANE 0 Leaf Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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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 *
Cerebrodepressant 1 *
Chemopreventive 4 *
Choleretic 2 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Cicatrizant 1 *
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 *
Coleoptophile 1 *
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 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Culicide 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 2 *
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.