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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CHRYSANTHEMIN 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-PENTYL-HYDRO-DISULFIDE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-PROPENYL-PROPYL-DISULFIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
CIS-PROPYL-2-PROPENYLDISULFIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Wealth of India.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Leaf 1.0 24.0 -0.10 Revised USDA data received 1993.
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(3''-6''-DIMALONYL-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(3''-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(6''-MALONYL-3''-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(6''-MALONYL-3''-O-BETA-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-(6''-MALONYL-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIN 5 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DESOXYRIBONUCLEIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
DIALANINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Wealth of India.
DIMETHYL-SULFIDE 2 Plant not available not available not available Wealth of India.
DIPROPYL-DISULFIDE 4 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DOTRIACONTANAL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DOTRIACONTANAL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Leaf 3000.0 89518.0 0.66 Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Leaf not available 0.5 -1.08 Duke, 1992 *
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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
Antifertility 2 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigallstone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigiardial 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 1 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.