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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant *
STIGMASTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
STIGMASTEROL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
STRICTININ 1 Leaf 100.0 0.09 *
STRONTIUM 0 Flower 30.0 60.0 *
STRONTIUM 0 Fruit 30.0 60.0 -0.11 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
STYRALYL-ACETATE 0 Flower 1.0 *
STYRALYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit 1.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SYZYGININ-A 0 Leaf 98.0 *
SYZYGININ-B 0 Leaf 131.0 *
TANNIN 35 Plant *
TANNINS 0 Fruit 100000.0 0.19 *
TELLIMAGRANDIN-I 7 Leaf *
TELLIMAGRANDIN-I 7 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
TELLIMAGRANDIN-II 1 Leaf *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil *
THIAMIN 31 Flower 1.0 -1.26 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 1.0 -0.55 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Flower *
TRANS-ANETHOLE 8 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antisarcomic 3 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiseptic 23 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiserotonin 1 *
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling 2 *
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 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
Antispasmodic 14 *
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 5 *
Antistomatitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antistreptococcic 4 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 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
Antisyndrome-X 5 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
Antitartar 1 *
AntiTGF-beta 1 *
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.