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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Allium sativum var. sativum (Liliaceae)

Common Names
Garlic
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BETA-TOCOPHEROL 0 Bulb Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
BIOTIN 4 Bulb 22.0 *
BORON 4 Bulb 3.0 10.0 -1.00 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Bulb 10.0 20.0 *
CALCIUM 28 Bulb 130.0 4947.0 1.16 *
CALCIUM 28 Flower 250.0 2155.0 -1.00 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 580.0 4265.0 -0.97 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM 28 Root 315.0 850.0 -0.72 *
CALCIUM 28 Shoot 120.0 538.0 -1.04 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM-FRUCTURONATE 0 Plant *
CALCIUM-OXALATE 4 Bulb *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Bulb 0.0 150.0 1.00 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Bulb 274000.0 851000.0 1.00 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Flower 94000.0 810000.0 0.81 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 95000.0 699000.0 0.69 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Shoot 201000.0 901000.0 1.76 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CELLULOSE 1 Bulb 6000.0 18000.0 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.
CHITINASE 0 Bulb 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.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cytostatic 1 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
Cytotoxic 8 Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Decalcifier 1 Merck 11th Edition
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 2 *
Deodorant 2 Merck 11th Edition
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 3 *
Diuretic 14 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 2 *
Dye 3 Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor 1 *
Embryotoxic 1 *