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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
QUERCETIN	176	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.
QUINIC-ACID	1	Leaf	not available	48000.0	0.66	Duke, 1992 *
RHINANTHIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SHIKIMIC-ACID	14	Leaf	not available	18000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN	35	Leaf	not available	113000.0	0.03	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TERPENES	0	Leaf	4000.0	8000.0	-1.00	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TIRUCALLOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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 *