Plant Pistacia lentiscus (Anacardiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mastic; Chios Mastictree; Mastictree; Mastixbaum (Ger.); Lentisco (Sp.)

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AUCUBIN	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
EO	0	Leaf	10000.0	30000.0	1.62	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	130000.0	312000.0	0.25	Duke, 1992 *
ISOMASTIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LINALOOL	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MASTICHIN	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MASTICIC-ACID	0	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
MYRCENE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN	34	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PLANTEASE	0	Seed	0.0	220.0	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROCYANADIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	72000.0	87000.0	-1.31	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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	4	Kauderer, B., Zamith, H., Paumgartten, F.J.R., and Speit, G. Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of B-Myrcene in Mammalian Cells In Vitro. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 18: 28-34, 1991.
Anesthetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	4	Duke, 1992 *