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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRYPTOAESCIN-B | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CYANIDIN | 7 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| DECAN-1-OL | 0 | Flower Essent. Oil | not available | 82000.0 | 1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| DODEC-2-EN-1-OL | 0 | Flower Essent. Oil | not available | 14000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ELEUTHEROSIDE-B-1 | 1 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-6)-EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-6)-EPI-CATECHIN | 0 | Fruit Epidermis | not available | 46.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8)-EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8,2-BETA-8)-EPI-CATECHIN | 0 | Fruit Epidermis | not available | 22.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8,2-BETA-7)-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8)-EPI-CATECHIN | 0 | Fruit Epidermis | not available | 30.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8,2-BETA-7)-EPI-CATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-ENT-EPI-CATECHIN | 0 | Fruit Epidermis | not available | 118.6 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPICATECHIN | 40 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| ESCIN | 40 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESCIN | 40 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESCIN | 40 | Seed | 22000.0 | 125300.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESCIN | 40 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESCULETIN | 30 | Bark | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESCULETIN | 30 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESCULIN | 29 | Bark | not available | 30000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESCULIN | 29 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESCULIN | 29 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ESCULIN | 29 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiprostanoid | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiproteolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprotozoal | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipsoriac | 2 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antipurpuric | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipyretic | 8 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antiradicular | 9 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiraucedo | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiRaynaud's | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirenitic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| Antiretinotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirheumatic | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Antirhinitic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisalmonella | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiscorbutic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiseborrheic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antisecretory | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |