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

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

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 *

Download these results as:

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
Chemopreventive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Coleoptophile	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMP-Inhibitor	1	Dullo, A. G., et al. 1999. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, 70: 1040-1045.
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	3	Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	4	Michael Castleman 1991. The Healing Herbs. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA 436 pp.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor	7	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.