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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
ALLYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALPHA-PINENE J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
BETA-ASARONE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CARLINOSIDE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CATALPOSIDE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CIS-HEX-3-EN-1-OL Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CUCURBITACIN Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
CUCURBITACIN-B Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CUCURBITACIN-D Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CUCURBITACIN-E Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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.
DIMETHYL-THIOSULFINATE *
DIPROPYL-DISULFIDE Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
DIPROPYL-THIOSULFINATE Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ERUCIN Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GERANIOL Merck 11th Edition
GERANYL-ACETATE Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GERANYL-LINALOL *
GERANYL-LINALOOL *
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List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Common Name Chemical Count Total Parts Per Million
Eupatorium triplinerve Triplinerved eupatorium 1 535
Euphorbia pulcherrima Poinsettia 1 0
Euphrasia officinalis Eyebright 2 0
Fagopyrum esculentum Buckwheat 2 247, 829
Fallopia japonica Japanese Knotweed; Giant Knotweed; Mexican Bamboo; Hu-Zhang 3 0
Ferula assa-foetida Asafetida; Asafoetida; Assa-foetida; Devil's Dung; Stinkasant (Ger.); Asafetida (Sp.); test 2 1, 101, 100
Ferula gummosa Galbanum 1 0
Ficus carica Fig; Figuier Commun (Fr.); Echte Feige (Ger.); Feigenbaum (Ger.); Fico (Ital.); Figueira (Port.); Higo (Sp.); Higuera Comun (Sp.) 8 118, 400
Filipendula ulmaria Meadowsweet; Queen Of The Meadow 2 30, 000
Foeniculum vulgare Fennel 5 308, 255
Forsythia suspensa Lian-Jiao; Lien-Chiao 1 2, 000
Fragaria spp Strawberry 2 0
Galega officinalis Goat's Rue; Galega 2 0
Gaultheria fragrantissima Indian Wintergreen 1 11, 890
Gaultheria procumbens Teaberry; Wintergreen; Checkerberry; Creeping Wintergreen; Mountain Tea; Wintergrun (Ger.) 1 47, 520
Ginkgo biloba Ginkgo; Maidenhair Tree 3 60, 001
Glechoma hederacea Alehoof 3 22
Glycine max Soybean 4 0
Glycyrrhiza glabra Commom Licorice; Licorice; Smooth Licorice; Licorice-Root 5 8
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Chinese Licorice; Gan-Cao; Kan-Tsao 2 222