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Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPHA-YLANGENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Essential Oil | not available | 20000.0 | -1.41 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANETHOLE | 36 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | 30000.0 | 1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ANISALDEHYDE | 7 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA OPLOPENTONE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-BOURBONENE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-FARNESENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-HUMULENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CALAMENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARYOPHYLLA-4(14)-8(15)-DIEN-5-ALPHA-OL | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE | 8 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Calcium-Antagonist | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cancer-Preventive | 12 | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Candidicide | 6 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |
| Candidistat | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carcinogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carcinogenic? | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Cardioprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cardiotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carminative | 4 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Caspase-8-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Chemopreventive | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Choleretic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cholesterolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CNS-Depressant | 4 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| CNS-Stimulant | 1 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| Coleoptophile | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Controlled | 1 | HerbalGram No. 20, page 15. |
| Cosmetic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| COX-1-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COX-2-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |