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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Allium schoenoprasum (Liliaceae)

Common Names
Chives
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
QUERCETIN-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
QUINIC-ACID 1 Leaf *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf 1.0 22.0 -0.07 *
S-(PROPENYL-1-YL)-CYSTEINE-SULFOXIDE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
SALICYLATES 7 Leaf 0.3 5.0 -0.57 *
SAPONIN 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SCORDININE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
SERINE 1 Leaf 1260.0 15830.0 1.15 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Leaf 1460.0 15615.0 0.06 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Leaf 20.0 750.0 -0.51 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Leaf 80.0 1000.0 0.03 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Leaf *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 0.5 12.0 0.77 *
THREONINE 4 Leaf 1110.0 13875.0 1.37 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TRANS-PENTYL-HYDRO-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
TRANS-PROPENYL-PROPYL-DISULFIDE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
TRANS-PROPYL-2-PROPENYLDISULFIDE 0 Plant Wealth of India.
TRIACONTANAL 3 Leaf *
TRIACONTANAL 3 Plant *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Leaf 310.0 3955.0 0.97 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 2 *
Antiseptic 7 Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling 2 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antispasmodic 9 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 3 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.
Antistomatitic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 2 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
Antisunburn 1 *
Antisyndrome-X 3 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
Antithiamin 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.