Common Names
Spanish Marjoram
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE | 8 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -0.41 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
CIS-BETA-TERPINEOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -1.00 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
CIS-BETA-TERPINYL-ACETATE | 0 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
CIS-NEROLIDOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 10.0 | -1.00 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
COPAENE | 1 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -0.93 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
DELTA-CADINENE | 9 | Plant | not available | 5.0 | -0.53 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
DELTA-TERPINEOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -0.91 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ELEMOL | 2 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -0.64 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
GAMMA-CADINENE | 0 | Plant | not available | 5.0 | -0.60 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
GAMMA-TERPINENE | 11 | Plant | 1.0 | 60.0 | -0.51 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
GERANIOL | 35 | Plant | not available | 20.0 | -0.45 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
GERANYL-ACETATE | 5 | Plant | not available | 10.0 | -0.56 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
ISOVALERIC-ACID | 5 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952. |
LIMONENE | 60 | Plant | 240.0 | 280.0 | -0.31 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
LINALOL | 0 | Plant | 850.0 | 7890.0 | 1.35 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
LINALYL-ACETATE | 7 | Plant | 100.0 | 150.0 | -0.51 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
LONGIFOLENE | 0 | Plant | not available | 1.0 | -1.24 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
MYRCENE | 22 | Plant | 20.0 | 90.0 | -0.38 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
P-CYMENE | 16 | Plant | 130.0 | 340.0 | -0.33 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
SABINENE | 5 | Plant | 80.0 | 110.0 | -0.37 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Insecticide | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
Insectifuge | 16 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
Insectiphile | 3 | J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986. |
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Irritant | 13 | Duke, 1992 * |
Keratitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Larvicide | 2 | Berenbaum, M. R., The natives knew, Chemtech, (May), 1990, 275-279. |
Laxative | 1 | Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253. |
Lipolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Molluscicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Mosquitocide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Mosquitofuge | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Motor-Depressant | 2 | Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC |
Mucolytic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Mycobactericide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Myorelaxant | 6 | J. Aromatherapy 4: 22. |
Nematicide | 8 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
Neurotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
NO-Genic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Occuloirritant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |