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Common Names
Patchouli
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,10-EPOXY-ALPHABULNESENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 1-ALPHA,5-ALPHA-EPOXY-ALPHA-GUAIENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 1-BETA,5-BETA-EPOXY-ALPHA-GUAIENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 2-METHYL-BUTYRIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 2-METHYLHEXANOIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 4-METHYL-PENTANOIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-BULNESENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-BULNESENE-OXIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-BULNESONE | 0 | Plant | 1260.0 | 5460.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-GUAIENE | 0 | Plant | 1261.0 | 5460.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-GUAIENE-OXIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PATCHOULENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| APIGENIN | 101 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-D-(-6'-P-COUMAROYL)-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| AZULENE | 10 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZALDEHYDE | 24 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PATCHOULENE | 0 | Plant | 120.0 | 464.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antilymphomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimalarial | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimelanomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimetastatic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimetastatic (Stomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimitotic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| AntiMS | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antimutagenic | 8 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235. |
| Antinephritic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| Antinitrosating | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiobesity | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antionychogryphotic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antionychyotic | 1 | Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp. |
| Antiophidic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363. |
| Antiotitic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antioxidant | 6 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antipeptic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiperistaltic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiplaque | 2 | Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21 |
| Antiplasmodial | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |