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Mentha pulegium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 28 constituent measurements for Mentha pulegium. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Mentha pulegium L.

28Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

14Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 14 licensed products naming Mentha pulegium as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Aerial parts
Dried grass
Herb top
Whole plant

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
(+)-pulegone	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 78 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegone	Leaves	Essential oil	2.83 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	75.48 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegone	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 25 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Leaves	Essential oil	4.37 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Carvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	6.66 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
D,l-isomenthone	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 52 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
D,l-isomenthone	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 3 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
D,l-isomenthone	Leaves	Essential oil	3.57 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Dihydrocarvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	4.64 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Isopiperitenone	Leaves	Essential oil	29.62 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.13 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
L-piperitone	Leaves	Essential oil	32.16 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Menthone	Live plants	Essential oil	≥ 5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Menthone	Live plants	Essential oil	≤ 59 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Pinocarvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.27 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	27.3 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	6.42 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Carvone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.13 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
D,l-isomenthone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	14 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
D,l-isomenthone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.56 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
L-piperitone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	35.56 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Menthofuran	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.15 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Menthol	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	3.28 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Menthol	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	22 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Menthone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	3.09 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Menthone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	14 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Piperitone oxide	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	4.02 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Zandi-Sohani, Nooshin., Ramezani, Leila. Evaluation of five essential oils as botanical acaricides against the strawberry spider mite Tetranychus turkestani Ugarov and Nikolskii . International biodeterioration & biodegradation, 2015, vol. 98, p. 101-106. DOI
Derwich, E., Benziane, Z., Taouil, R., Senhaji, O., Touzani, M. Comparative essential oil composition of leaves of mentha rotundifolia and mentha pulegium a traditional herbal medicine in Morocco. American-eurasian journal of sustainable agriculture, 2010, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 47-54.
Miguel, Maria Graca., Almeida, Maria Lynete., Goncalves, Maria Albertina., Figueiredo, Ana Cristina., Barroso, Jose Goncalves., Pedro, Luis Manuel. Toxic Effects of Three Essential Oils on Ceratitis capitata. Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2010, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 191-199.
Baser, K. H. C., Kurkcuoglu, M., Demirci, B., Ozek, T., Tarimcilar, G. Essential oils of Mentha species from Marmara region of Turkey. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2012, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 265-272. DOI
Chraibi, Marwa., Farah, Abdellah., Lebrazi, Sara., El Amine, Oumaima., Houssaini, Mohammed Iraqui., Fikri-Benbrahim, Kawtar. Antimycobacterial natural products from Moroccan medicinal plants: Chemical composition, bacteriostatic and bactericidal profile of Thymus satureioides and Mentha pulegium essential oils . Asian pacific journal of tropical biomedicine, 2016, vol. 6, no. 10, p. 836-840. DOI

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