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

Common Names
Clove; Clovetree
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-AMORPHENE 0 Flower 1.0 *
ALPHA-AMORPHENE 0 Fruit 1.0 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-CADINENE 0 Flower *
ALPHA-CADINENE 0 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-CADINOL 3 Leaf 5.0 8.0 -0.55 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Flower *
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit 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.
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Flower *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Fruit 1890.0 1.88 *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Leaf 1135.0 6.40 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Flower *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit 37800.0 2.08 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Leaf 25.0 305.0 1.72 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil 30000.0 -0.21 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Flower 775.0 850.0 1.88 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit 250.0 850.0 -0.17 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf 290.0 1740.0 2.49 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE-EPOXIDE 1 Essential Oil 26000.0 *
ALPHA-METHYL-FURFURYL 0 Fruit Wealth of India.
ALPHA-METHYL-FURFURYL 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic 6 *
Expectorant 2 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 22 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 17 Tomas-Barberan, F., Iniesta-Sanmartin, E., Tomas-Lorente, F., and Rumbero, A. 1989. Antimicrobial Phenolic Compounds From Three Spanish Helichrysum Species. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1093-1095. 1990.
Fungistat 3 Laekeman, G.M., Van Hoof, L., Haemers, A., Vanden Berghe, D.A., Herman, A.G., and Vlietinck, A.J. Eugenol a Valuable Compound for In Vitro Experimental Research and Worthwhile for Further In Vivo Investigation. Phytotherapy Research 4(3): 93, 1990.
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroprotective 2 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 3 *
Glutathionigenic 1 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 *
Gram(-)icide 1 *
Hemostat 2 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.