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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
CHRYSANTHEMIN 0 Stem *
CIS-PENTYL-HYDRO-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil *
CIS-PROPENYL-PROPYL-DISULFIDE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
CIS-PROPYL-2-PROPENYLDISULFIDE 0 Plant Wealth of India.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Leaf *
COPPER 12 Leaf 1.0 24.0 -0.10 Revised USDA data received 1993.
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(3''-6''-DIMALONYL-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(3''-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(6''-MALONYL-3''-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(6''-MALONYL-3''-O-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Stem *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(6''-MALONYL-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Stem *
CYANIN 5 Stem *
DESOXYRIBONUCLEIC-ACID 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
DIALANINE 0 Seed Wealth of India.
DIMETHYL-SULFIDE 2 Plant Wealth of India.
DIPROPYL-DISULFIDE 4 Essential Oil *
DOTRIACONTANAL 0 Leaf *
DOTRIACONTANAL 0 Plant *
FAT 0 Leaf 3000.0 89518.0 0.66 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Leaf 0.5 -1.08 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hemopoietic 1 *
Hemostat 2 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 7 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210.
Hepatotoxic 1 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 1 Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hormone 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 12 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.