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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
CHLOROPHYLL 21 Bulb *
CHOLESTEROL 1 Bulb 0.0 80.0 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.
CHOLINE 20 Bulb *
CHROMIUM 24 Bulb 0.1 1.5 -1.00 *
CHROMIUM 24 Root 0.6 1.5 -0.26 *
CIS-2-PROPENYL-1-PROPENYL-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
CIS-AJOENE 0 Bulb 59.2 *
CITRAL 53 Bulb Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
CITRULLINE 5 Bulb *
COBALT 2 Bulb 0.5 2.5 1.00 *
COBALT 2 Root 3.7 10.0 -0.33 *
CONIFERIN 2 Plant *
COPPER 12 Bulb 1.4 9.7 -1.27 *
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Bulb Wealth of India.
CYCLIC-SULFUR-S8 0 Bulb 2455.0 *
CYCLOALLIIN 3 Bulb 500.0 4285.0 *
CYSTEINE 13 Bulb 0.0 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.
CYSTEINE 13 Leaf *
CYSTINE 2 Bulb 0.0 1560.0 -1.00 *
CYSTINE 2 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Emetic 4 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Epidermal-Stimulant 1 *
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 7 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 3 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 12 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 24 *
Fungistat 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
GABA-nergic 1 *
Gastroprotective 1 *