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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
N,N'-BIS-(GAMMA-GLUTAMYL)-L-CYSTINE 0 Seed Wealth of India.
NIACIN 39 Leaf 5.0 88.0 -0.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OCTACOSANOL 6 Leaf *
OCTACOSANOL 6 Plant *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Leaf 840.0 10500.0 0.83 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OXALIC-ACID 9 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf 21.0 -0.34 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf 910.0 11375.0 -0.17 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Leaf 2.0 40.0 0.17 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PENTYL-HYDRO-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil 25000.0 *
PENTYL-HYDRO-DISULFIDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 25000.0 *
PEONIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Stem *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf 900.0 11250.0 0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 410.0 6670.0 0.31 *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 2500.0 34500.0 0.18 *
PROLINE 0 Leaf 1850.0 23125.0 1.72 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROPYL-ALLYL-ALLITHIAMINE 0 Plant Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 18000.0 402000.0 1.90 *
PUFA 4 Leaf 2670.0 28555.0 1.23 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf 9.0 -0.35 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Odontolytic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 3 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Pemphigenic 1 My Rodale Press Green Farmacy Draft, miscellaneous abstracts.
Percutaneostimulant 2 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 4 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 12 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 1 *