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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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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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 *
Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 6 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 8 *
Tranquilizer 3 *
Transdermal 2 *
Trichomonicide 4 Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypsin-Enhancer 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 5 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricosuric 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterotonic 1 *
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.