Chemical SELENIUM | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Chemical ID

SELENIUM

Ubiquitous

Yes

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List of chemical activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Dosage	Reference
Analgesic	200 ug/day	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anorexic	not available	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Antiacne	200 ug/day	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiaggregant	not available	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiangiogenic	2 uM	Duke, 1992 *
Antiangiogenic	230 ug/kg orl rat	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	400 ug/day	Duke, 1992 *
Anticirrhotic	not available	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlimacteric	200 ug/day	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoronary	200 ug/day	Duke, 1992 *
Antidandruff	not available	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidepressant	200 ug/day	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Mercury)	not available	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifibrotic	400 ug	Duke, 1992 *
Antigout	200 ug	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Antikeshan	not available	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.

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List of chemical plants.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Plant Name	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
Eriodictyon californicum	Leaf	2.6	12.0	0.5	Duke, 1992 *
Eupatorium perfoliatum	Plant	0.1	1.0	-0.4	Duke, 1992 *
Euphrasia officinalis	Plant	0.1	0.5	-0.4	Duke, 1992 *
Fagopyrum esculentum	Seed	not available	0.2	-0.3	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
Foeniculum vulgare	Seed	17.3	160.0	1.3	Duke, 1992 *
Foeniculum vulgare	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
Fragaria spp	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.4	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
Frangula purshiana	Bark	0.3	1.1	-0.5	Duke, 1992 *
Fucus vesiculosus	Plant	0.2	1.7	-0.4	Duke, 1992 *
Gentiana lutea	Root	0.4	1.8	-0.2	Duke, 1992 *
Ginkgo biloba	Leaf	0.5	2.0	-0.2	Duke, 1992 *
Glycine max	Seed	0.0	2.6	-0.2	Duke, 1992 *
Glycyrrhiza glabra	Root	not available	0.1	-0.4	Duke, 1992 *
Gymnema sylvestre	Leaf	0.4	2.3	-0.2	Duke, 1992 *
Harpagophytum procumbens	Root	0.3	1.5	-0.3	Duke, 1992 *
Hibiscus sabdariffa	Flower	1.6	14.3	1.7	Duke, 1992 *
Hordeum vulgare	Stem	not available	24.0	2.7	Duke, 1992 *
Humulus lupulus	Fruit	not available	1.7	0.0	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
Humulus lupulus	Flower	0.3	1.7	-0.5	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrangea arborescens	Root	0.6	1.6	-0.2	Duke, 1992 *