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

Common Names

Clove; Clovetree

How this plant is used

Food

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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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Bark	555000.0	612000.0	-1.35	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARVONE	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-6-DIEN-4-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-7(13)-DIEN-6-ALPHA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(8)-13-DIEN-5-ALPHA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-4(12)-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	16000.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Flower	74400.0	8160.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Fruit	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASUARICTIN	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASUARICTIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	9.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHAVICOL	3	Flower	465.0	510.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenovirus	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiadrenalinic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaflatoxin	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	4	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran?	1	L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Antianaphylactic	4	Duke, 1992 *