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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Syzygium aromaticum (Myrtaceae)

Common Names
Clove; Clovetree
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Bark 555000.0 612000.0 -1.35 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARVONE 19 Plant *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-6-DIEN-4-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-7(13)-DIEN-6-ALPHA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(8)-13-DIEN-5-ALPHA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-3-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-4(12)-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Essential Oil 16000.0 -0.47 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Flower 74400.0 8160.0 1.41 *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Fruit 7440.0 8160.0 -0.15 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Fruit 2455.0 1.40 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf 75.0 712.0 2.64 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Plant *
CARYOPHYLLINE 0 Fruit *
CASUARICTIN 5 Leaf *
CASUARICTIN 5 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CASUARIIN 0 Leaf 9.7 *
CHAVICOL 3 Flower 465.0 510.0 *
CHAVICOL 3 Fruit 465.0 510.0 -0.45 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 2 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 *
Abortifacient 2 *
Acaricide 6 *
ACE-Inhibitor 6 *
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adrenergic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 15 *
Allelochemic 4 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic 2 Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic 14 *
Amphiglycemic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic 11 *
Anaphrodisiac 1 *
Androgenic 2 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anesthetic 7 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *