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Plant Schinus molle (Anacardiaceae)

Common Names
California Peppertree; Mastic-Tree; Peruvian Peppertree
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
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit not available 190000.0 1.12 Duke, 1992 *
ISOMASTICADIENONALIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOMASTICADIENONIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-PHELLANDRENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEUCODELPHINIDIN 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN 34 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PEPERIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PERILLALDEHYDE 11 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 75000.0 85000.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SOBREROL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SYLVESTRINE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Bark not available 230000.0 0.78 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
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery 5 Merck 11th Edition
Pesticide 15 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 1 Meckes, M., Calzada, F., Tapia-Contreras, A., Cedillo-Rivera, R. 1999. Antiprotozoal Properties of Helianthemum glomeratum. Phytotherapy Research, 13(2): 102-105.
Psychotropic 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *