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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Garlic Mustard
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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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
1-CYANO-2,3-EPITHIOPROPANE 0 Plant *
2-BUTYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Plant *
ALLIAROSIDE 0 Leaf *
ALLYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Plant *
ALLYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE 16 Plant 40.0 460.0 *
ALLYL-SULFIDE 7 Plant *
ALPHA-LINOLEIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Plant *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed 880.0 -0.57 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Plant *
BENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Plant *
BENZYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE 20 Essential Oil 2.0 25.0 *
BETA-LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Plant *
BUT-3-ENYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE 0 Plant *
CARDEONLIDES 0 Seed *
CAROTENE 0 Plant *
DIALLYL-SULFIDE 25 Seed 500.0 960.0 *
EICOSADIENIC-ACID 0 Seed 1760.0 *
EICOSENOIC-ACID 0 Seed 8800.0 -0.70 *
EO 0 Plant 50.0 520.0 -0.70 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Counterirritant 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cytochrome-P450-2E1-Inhibitor 1 *
Decongestant 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Dermatitigenic 1 *
Detoxicant 1 *
Diuretic 1 *
Embryotoxic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Emollient 1 Merck 11th Edition
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatulent 1 *
FLavor 4 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatoprotective 1 *
Herbicide 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Hypotensive 2 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.