Plant Schinus molle (Anacardiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
3-EPIMASTICADIENOLALIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	not available	54700.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SPATHULENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-LIMONENE	19	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Flower	not available	21000.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Fruit	33500.0	52000.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	2000.0	10000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-PHENOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	77000.0	124000.0	0.31	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	155000.0	0.13	Duke, 1992 *
FISETIN	15	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Bark	not available	not available	not available	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
Antiplasmodial	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipneumonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipodriac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipyretic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular	6	Jimenez, J., Navarro, M.C., Montilla, M.P., Martin, A. and Martinez, A. 1993. Thymus zygis Oil: Its Effects on CCl4-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Free Radical Scavenger Activity. JEO5: 153-8.
Antirenitic	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.
Antiseptic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmodic	8	Duke, 1992 *