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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
AESCULITANNIN-C 0 Seed Coat 15.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
AESCULITANNIN-D 0 Seed Coat 2.2 Jim Duke's personal files.
AESCULITANNIN-E 0 Seed Coat 55.1 Jim Duke's personal files.
AESCULITANNIN-F 0 Seed Coat 11.4 Jim Duke's personal files.
AESCULITANNIN-G 0 Seed Coat 17.6 Jim Duke's personal files.
AESCULOSIDE 3 Seed *
ALLANTOIC-ACID 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN 12 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ALLANTOIN 12 Branches Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN 12 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-AESCIN 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-AESCIN 0 Seed *
ALPHA-AMURIN 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-CAROTENE 7 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-METHYL-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRIC-ACID 0 Seed *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Flower Essent. Oil 177000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL 2 Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL 2 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
AMINO-ACIDS 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ANGELIC-ACID 1 Seed Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Coleoptophile 1 *
Collagenic 1 *
Collyrium 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 *
COMP-Inhibitor 2 Dullo, A. G., et al. 1999. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, 70: 1040-1045.
COMT-Inhibitor 2 *
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Corticomimetic 2 *
Corticosterogenic 2 *
Corticosterone-genic 1 *
Cosmetic 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 2 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 4 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 4 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 1 *
Cytotoxic 7 Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.