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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
LEUCOANTHOCYANS 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
LEUCOCYANIDIN 1 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LEUCODELPHINIDIN 2 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LIMONENE 60 Flower Essent. Oil 42000.0 -1.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 6415.0 -0.86 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 620.0 -0.57 *
LUTEOLOL 3 Seed *
MYO-INOSITOL 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRICETIN 34 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
MYRICETIN-3',4',7-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Bud Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRICETIN-3',4',7-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Seed Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
NONAN-1-AL 0 Flower Essent. Oil 23000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 18990.0 -0.82 *
OPCS 25 Seed Gruenwald, J. et al. 1998. PDR for Herbal Medicine. 1st ed. Medical Economics Co., Montvale, NJ. 1244 pp. (abbreviated as PHR or Physicians Herbal Reference in my mind)
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 1245.0 -0.67 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 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.