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Plant Allium schoenoprasum (Liliaceae)

Common Names
Chives
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
KAEMPFEROL-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
KAEMPFEROL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
KAEMPFEROL-TRIGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf 300.0 3210.0 0.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEUCINE 2 Leaf 1670.0 20875.0 0.67 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf 2220.0 27750.0 3.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LYSINE 4 Leaf 1630.0 17435.0 1.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 355.0 6875.0 1.06 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MALIC-ACID 15 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 3.0 40.0 -0.39 Revised USDA data received 1993.
METHIONINE 15 Leaf 300.0 3850.0 0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-2-PROPENYLDISULFIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Wealth of India.
METHYL-ALLYL-ALLITHIAMINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
METHYL-DISULFIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
METHYL-PENTYL-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PENTYL-DISULFIDE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 16000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PROPYL-DISULFIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
MUFA 13 Leaf 840.0 10500.0 0.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Leaf 30.0 3635.0 1.81 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
N,N'-BIS-(GAMMA-GLUTAMYL)-3,3'-(2-METHYL-ETHYLENE-1,2-DITHIOL)-DIALANINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Liver) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 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)
Anticardiospasmic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 6 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 3 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticlastogen 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Anticold 1 Duke, 1992 *