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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
CRYPTOAESCIN-B 0 Seed *
CYANIDIN 7 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
DECAN-1-OL 0 Flower Essent. Oil 82000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
DODEC-2-EN-1-OL 0 Flower Essent. Oil 14000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ELEUTHEROSIDE-B-1 1 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-6)-EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-6)-EPI-CATECHIN 0 Fruit Epidermis 46.6 Jim Duke's personal files.
EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8)-EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8,2-BETA-8)-EPI-CATECHIN 0 Fruit Epidermis 22.6 Jim Duke's personal files.
EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8,2-BETA-7)-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8)-EPI-CATECHIN 0 Fruit Epidermis 30.6 Jim Duke's personal files.
EPI-CATECHIN-(4-BETA-8,2-BETA-7)-EPI-CATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-ENT-EPI-CATECHIN 0 Fruit Epidermis 118.6 Jim Duke's personal files.
EPICATECHIN 40 Bark List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ESCIN 40 Bark *
ESCIN 40 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCIN 40 Seed 22000.0 125300.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCIN 40 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCULETIN 30 Bark *
ESCULETIN 30 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCULIN 29 Bark 30000.0 *
ESCULIN 29 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCULIN 29 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCULIN 29 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 2 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Previtamin-A 1 *
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 1 *
Propecic 5 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 Hung, H.C., Lai, M.W., Wang, H.R., Chung, Y.L., Hsieh, L.M., Chen, C.C. 1993. Antiproliferative Effect of Esculetin on Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Possible Roles of Signal Transduction Pathways. Eur J Pharmacol, 237(1): 39-44.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 3 Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 *
Purgative 1 *
Pyrogenic 1 Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 4 *
Radioprotective 1 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Respirastimulant 1 Martindale's 29th