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Plant 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
BUTYROSPERMOL 0 Seed Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPEST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Leaf not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPHENE 9 Flower Essent. Oil not available 83000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed not available 740000.0 0.86 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CASTAPRENOL-10 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CASTAPRENOL-11 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CASTAPRENOL-12 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CASTAPRENOL-13 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHOLESTEROL 1 Bark not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHOLESTEROL 1 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHOLINE 20 Flower not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CINNAMTANNIN-B-1 4 Seed Coat not available 408.2 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CINNAMTANNIN-B-2 2 Seed Coat not available 132.7 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Bark not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CRYPTOAESCIGENIN 0 Seed not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CRYPTOAESCIN 1 Seed not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CRYPTOAESCIN-A 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglucuronidase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihematomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhagic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal 6 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatitic 3 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 9 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic 12 Duke, 1992 *