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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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List of activity chemicals.
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Chemical Name Dosage Reference
CEVADINE Merck 11th Edition
CINERINS Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CINNAMALDEHYDE Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CINNZELANIN CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CINNZELANOL CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CNS-STIMULANT Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
COCCULOLIDINE Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
CORIAMYRTIN Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
D-CARVONE Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
D-LIMONENE *
D-NORNICOTINE Merck 11th Edition
DAPHNODORINES *
DEGUELIN Merck 11th Edition
DELCOSINE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DELSOLINE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DEOXYPODOPHYLLOTOXIN *
DESOXYPODOPHYLLOTOXIN *
DI-N-PROPYL-DISULFIDE LC50=980-1,000 ppm *
DIALLYL-DISULFIDE LC50=280-340 ppm *
DIALLYL-TRISULFIDE LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
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List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Common Name Chemical Count Total Parts Per Million
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Pepperbark; Southern Prickly Ash; Hercules'-Club; West Indian Yellowwood 1 0
Zea mays Corn 9 8, 000
Zingiber officinale Ginger 9 103, 655
Zizyphus jujuba Da-Zao; Jujube; Ta-Tsao 1 45, 000