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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

List of Chemicals

Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemicals Reference
ALPHAAMYRIN *
ALPHAPINENE *
ASCORBICACID Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
BETAAMYRIN *
BETULIN Recio, M., et al. 1994. Investigations on the Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Triterpenoids from Diospyros leucomelas*. Planta Medica, 61: 9.
GALLICACID Kroes, B.H., et al. 1991. Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Gallic Acid. Planta Medica, 58(6): 499.
LIMONENE *
LINALOOL *
LUPEOL *
MAGNESIUM Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
MYRICETIN Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
MYRICITRIN Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.