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
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Bark	555000.0	612000.0	-1.35	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARVONE	19	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-6-DIEN-4-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-7(13)-DIEN-6-ALPHA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(8)-13-DIEN-5-ALPHA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLA-4(12)-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	16000.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Flower	74400.0	8160.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Fruit	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASUARICTIN	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CASUARICTIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	9.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHAVICOL	3	Flower	465.0	510.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiscotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Aluminum)	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antidote (Cadmium)	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Lead)	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidote (Strychnine)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidrepanocytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	9	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *