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
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
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.