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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Pinus sylvestris (Pinaceae)

Common Names
Scotch Pine
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TERPINOLENE 9 Essential Oil *
TERPINOLENE 9 Flower *
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 26000.0 1.72 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
TESTOSTERONE 11 Pollen Or Spore *
TETRACOSANOL-(1) 0 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 14000.0 1.44 *
TRICYCLENE 0 Essential Oil *
TRICYCLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 4400.0 1.00 *
TRICYCLENE 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
VALERIC-ACID 9 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Bark *
VIOLAXANTHIN 2 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VIT-E 0 Leaf 280.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
XYLOSE 3 Leaf 200.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
YLANGENE 1 Essential Oil *
ZINGERONE-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Leaf 336.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insectifuge 26 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 3 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Irritant 21 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Lactagogue 1 *
Larvicide 3 Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
Larvistat 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 5 Martindale's 29th
Leucocytogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *