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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEUCOANTHOCYANS | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| LEUCOCYANIDIN | 1 | 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. |
| LEUCODELPHINIDIN | 2 | 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. |
| LIMONENE | 60 | Flower Essent. Oil | not available | 42000.0 | -1.41 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Seed | not available | 6415.0 | -0.86 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | 620.0 | -0.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUTEOLOL | 3 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYO-INOSITOL | 0 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MYRICETIN | 34 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| MYRICETIN-3',4',7-TRIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Bud | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MYRICETIN-3',4',7-TRIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| MYRISTIC-ACID | 6 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| NONAN-1-AL | 0 | Flower Essent. Oil | not available | 23000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | not available | 18990.0 | -0.82 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OPCS | 25 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Gruenwald, J. et al. 1998. PDR for Herbal Medicine. 1st ed. Medical Economics Co., Montvale, NJ. 1244 pp. (abbreviated as PHR or Physicians Herbal Reference in my mind) |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Seed | not available | 1245.0 | -0.67 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALMITOLEIC-ACID | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| 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 * |