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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
APS-SULFOTRANSFERASE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 147.2 -0.43 Jim Duke's personal files.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 24.0 -0.32 Jim Duke's personal files.
ASH 0 Seed 14000.0 30000.0 -0.54 *
ASTRAGALIN 7 Flower List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BARRINGTOGENOL-C 0 Seed *
BARRINGTOGENOL-C-21-ANGELATE 1 Fruit 4.7 Jim Duke's personal files.
BARRINGTOGENOL-D 0 Seed Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BENZALDEHYDE 24 Flower Essent. Oil 11000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BENZYL-FORMATE 1 Flower Essent. Oil 22000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-AESCIN 8 Seed *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Bark *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Flower Essent. Oil 13000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Flower Essent. Oil 122000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
BUTYL-ACETATE 0 Flower Essent. Oil 21000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BUTYROSPERMOL 0 Seed *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulinic 1 *
Insulinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 5 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Keratitigenic 1 *
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 3 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 1 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Lipolytic 3 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.
Lipotropic 1 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 12 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.