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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
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
Antithrombic 1 *
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyroid 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 2 *
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic 1 *
Antitumor 22 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Bladder) 1 *
Antitumor (Breast) 4 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 *
Antitumor (CNS) 1 *
Antitumor (Colon) 4 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 *
Antitumor (Kidney) 1 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (Lung) 5 *
Antitumor (Ovary) 1 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 1 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antitumor (Prostate) 1 *