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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
PARKEOL 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
PLASTOQUINONE-8 0 Plant *
PLASTOQUINONE-8 0 Seed *
POLYPRENOLS 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-A-4 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-A-6 0 Seed Coat 17.9 Jim Duke's personal files.
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-A-7 0 Seed Coat 12.7 Jim Duke's personal files.
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-POLYMER 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
PROANTHOCYANIN-A-2 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PROCYANIDIN-A-1 0 Fruit Epidermis Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-A-1 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-A-2 17 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-A-2 17 Fruit Epidermis Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-A-2 17 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-A-2 17 Seed Coat 510.2 1733.3 Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-A-4 0 Seed Coat 204.1 Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Fruit Epidermis Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Seed Coat 240.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Apoptotic 8 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide 2 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator 1 *
Ascaricide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Atherogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 6 Zhu, M., Phillipson, J. D., Greengrass, P. M., Bowery, N. E., Cai, Y. 1997. Plant Polyphenols: Biologically Active Compounds or Non-Selective Binders to Protein? Phytochemistry, 44(3): 441-447.
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Bronchorelaxant 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cancer-Preventive 27 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Cancerostatic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Candidicide 7 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.