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Plant Allium ampeloprasum (Liliaceae)

Common Names
Elephant Garlic; Kurrat
How this plant is used
Food

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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
FOLACIN 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSYLSUCROSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOFRUCTAN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMATE-DEHYDROGENASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMINE 5 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GUANYLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEMICELLULOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HISTONES 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Flower 9.0 53.0 -0.75 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Leaf 11.0 255.0 -0.27 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Root 11.0 80.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-XYLOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihangover 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 2 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 11 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Antiherpetic 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic? 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic 6 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.