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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
POTASSIUM 14 Root 4366.0 11800.0 -0.29 *
POTASSIUM 14 Shoot 2730.0 12242.0 -0.82 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROLINE 0 Bulb 1.3 5800.0 1.00 *
PROLINE 0 Leaf *
PROP-2-ENYL-DISULFANE 0 Bulb *
PROP-CIS-1-ENYL-ALLYL-DISULFIDE 0 Bulb *
PROP-TRANS-1-ENYL-ALLYL-TRISULFIDE 0 Bulb *
PROPENE 0 Bulb 0.0 6.0 *
PROPENETHIOL 0 Bulb 1.0 41.0 *
PROPENYL-METHYL-THIOSULFINATE 0 Bulb *
PROPENYLALLIIN 0 Bulb *
PROPYL-ALLYL-DISULFIDE 0 Bulb 99.0 *
PROPYL-ALLYL-TRISULFIDE 0 Bulb 119.0 *
PROSTAGLANDIN-A 0 Bulb Pobozsny, K., Tetenyi, P., Hethelyi, I., Kocsar, L., Mann, V. 1979. Biologically Active Substances: Investigations into the Prostaglandin Content of Allium Species. I. Herba Hung, 18(2): 71-81.
PROSTAGLANDIN-A-1 2 Bulb *
PROSTAGLANDIN-A-2 0 Bulb *
PROSTAGLANDIN-B 0 Bulb Pobozsny, K., Tetenyi, P., Hethelyi, I., Kocsar, L., Mann, V. 1979. Biologically Active Substances: Investigations into the Prostaglandin Content of Allium Species. I. Herba Hung, 18(2): 71-81.
PROSTAGLANDIN-B-1 0 Bulb *
PROSTAGLANDIN-B-2 0 Bulb *
PROSTAGLANDIN-E-1 2 Bulb *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lachrymatory 1 *
Larvicide 4 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 11 *
Leptingenic 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
Leucocytogenic 1 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 11 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic 2 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 9 *
Lithogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 1 *
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.