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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
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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 2 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 11 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 9 Martindale's 29th
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 1 *
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glucogonogenic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 13 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotropic 1 *
Herbicide 5 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.