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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Aesculus hippocastanum (Hippocastanaceae)

Common Names
Horse Chestnut
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTA-5,7-DIEN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
SUCROSE 14 Branches Jim Duke's personal files.
TANNIN 35 Flower List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TANNIN 35 Wood Jim Duke's personal files.
TARAXEROL 2 Seed *
TARAXEROL 2 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
TIGLIC-ACID 1 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TRIACONTANE 0 Seed *
TRIDEC-2-EN-1-OL 0 Flower Essent. Oil 34000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
UREA 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
URIC-ACID 0 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
URIC-ACID 0 Seed *
VITAMIN-K-1 0 Leaf *
WATER 0 Seed 30000.0 400000.0 0.66 *
XANTHORHAMNOSIDE 1 Seed *
XYLOSE 3 Seed *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiperiodontal 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiperiodontic 5 *
Antiperiodontitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperistaltic 1 *
Antipermeability 1 *
Antiperoxidant 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antipharyngitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiphlebitic 2 *
Antiplaque 4 *
Antiplasmodial 1 *
Antiplatelet 1 *
Antipleuritic 2 *
AntiPMS 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipneumonic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipoliomyelitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 4 *
Antiprostaglandin 3 *