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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
ALLYL-TRANS-1-PROPENYL-THIOSULFINATES 0 Bulb 50.0 2855.0 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.
ALLYL-TRISULFIDE 1 Bulb *
ALLYLMETHYLSULFIDE 2 Bulb *
ALLYLMETHYLSULFIDE 2 Essential Oil *
ALLYLMETHYLSULFIDE 2 Fruit Juice Deruaz, D., et. al. 1994. Analytical Strategy by Coupling Headspace Gas Chromatography, Atomic Emission Spectrometric Detection and Mass Spectrometry Application to Sulfur Compounds from Garlic. J. Chromatogr., 677(2): 345-354.
ALPHA-AMINO-BUTYRIC-ACID 0 Bulb *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Plant 60.0 720.0 -1.24 Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 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.
ALPHA-PROSTAGLANDIN-F-1 0 Bulb *
ALPHA-PROSTAGLANDIN-F-2 0 Bulb *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Bulb 0.1 12.0 -1.00 *
ALUMINUM 5 Bulb 52.0 -1.00 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Root 19.0 52.0 -0.28 *
ANILINE 0 Bulb 10.0 *
APIGENIN 101 Bulb 693.0 *
ARABINOSE 0 Bulb Wealth of India.
ARACHIDONIC-ACID 12 Bulb *
ARGININE 14 Bulb 81.0 30316.0 1.00 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Bulb 100.0 788.0 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Flower 440.0 3793.0 0.33 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibacterial 36 Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Antiberiberi 2 *
Antibiotic 3 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Anticancer 13 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 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.
Anticancer (Colon) 5 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 6 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
Anticancer (Stomach) 4 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)