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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Garlic Mustard
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SINAPINE-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Seed *
SINIGRIN 7 Plant *
SQUALENE 10 Plant *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 880.0 -0.55 *
TETRACOSADIENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 17600.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antineoplastic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antineuralgic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antineuramidase 1 *
Antinitrosaminic 1 *
Antinitrosic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiobesity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiorchitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic 1 *
Antioxidant 5 *
Antiparkinsonian 1 *
Antiparotitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiperiodontitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperoxynitrite 1 *
Antipneumonic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipoliomyelitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiprostatitic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).