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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
HIPPOCASTANOSIDE 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
HISTIDINE 7 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOKAEMPFERIDE 0 Bud Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Flower List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ISORHAMNETIN 11 Bud Jim Duke's personal files.
JUGLANIN 1 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
KAEMPFEROL 75 Bud Jim Duke's personal files.
KAEMPFEROL 75 Seed *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-GLUCOSIDE 0 Flower List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
KAEMPFEROL-3-ARABINOSIDE 0 Flower *
KAEMPFEROL-3-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 4 Flower List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOFURANOSIDE 0 Flower *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOFURANOSIDE 0 Leaf *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE 4 Flower List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
KAEMPFEROL-4',7-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Bud Jim Duke's personal files.
L-(+)-LYSINE 0 Seed *
L-(-)-TRYPTOPHAN 0 Seed *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 4 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic 1 *
Diaphoretic? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 13 *
Dye 2 Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic 1 *
Emetic 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Essential 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 4 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 6 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.