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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
BENZOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
BENZOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
BENZOIC-ACID-PROPYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
BENZYL-ACETATE 9 Plant *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Plant *
BENZYL-TIGLATE 0 Plant *
BETA-BOURBONENE 0 Leaf Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Bark 2.0 3.0 -0.65 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil 495000.0 2.81 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Flower *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit 2230.0 69365.0 2.00 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf 2295.0 14520.0 6.77 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 0 Essential Oil 45000.0 *
BETA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Fruit *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Essential Oil 1000.0 -1.00 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 2420.0 2.39 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
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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.