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
EUGENIIN	5	Leaf	not available	8950.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENINE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
EUGENITINE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENITINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
EUGENOL	76	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Bulb	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Essential Oil	61000.0	627000.0	1.06	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Flower	108655.0	180000.0	2.65	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Leaf	7920.0	26400.0	2.29	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Stem	36000.0	57000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-4-O-BETA-D(6'-O-GALLOYL)-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	215.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-ACETATE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENYL-ACETATE	6	Fruit	not available	56700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Flower	89000.0	201000.0	2.26	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	89000.0	201000.0	0.89	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FENCHONE	6	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
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
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.