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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
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 3 *
Hypercholesterolemic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 4 Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hyperuricemic 1 Martindale's 28th
Hypocholesterolemic 12 Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 9 *
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 9 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Ileorelaxant 1 *
Immunomodulator 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant 1 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 *
Inotropic 2 *
Insecticide 4 *
Insectifuge 9 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 5 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.