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Plant Allium ampeloprasum (Liliaceae)

Common Names
Elephant Garlic; Kurrat
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
1-O-CAFFEOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIMETHYL-2,5-DIOXO-2,5-DIHYDROTHIOPHENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3,5-DIALKYLTRITHIOLANES 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-PROLINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYL-SYNTHETASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ADENYLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALCOHOL-DEHYDROGENASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLIIN 21 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLITHIAMINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLYL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLYL-MONOSULFIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLYL-SULFIDE 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM-PHOSPHATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARGINASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE 14 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Flower 400.0 2367.0 -0.11 Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 170.0 3019.0 -0.16 Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root 170.0 1241.0 0.06 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Acantholytic 1 My Rodale Press Green Farmacy Draft, miscellaneous abstracts.
Acaricide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Acarifuge 1 Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aggregant 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic 3 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.
Allelopathic 2 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic 10 Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anesthetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Angiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th