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
CHROMIUM	24	Flower	3.0	5.0	0.99	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	3.0	5.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Flower	not available	1.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Fruit	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-ISOEUGENOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Flower	not available	0.7	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Fruit	not available	0.7	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERALDEHYDE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Flower	3.0	9.0	-0.84	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	3.0	9.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
CORNUS-TANNIN-2	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRATAEGOLIC ACID METHYL ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CRATAEGOLIC-ACID	0	Flower	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRATAEGOLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	6.0	1500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRATEGOLIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	20.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBENENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CUBENOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
CUMINALDEHYDE	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAUCOSTEROL	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Capillarigenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiomyopathogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective	7	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	4	Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cataractagenic	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
Choleretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Chronotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Circulatory-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	4	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.