Plant Asparagus officinalis (Liliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Asparagus

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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
22-SPIROSTAN-3BETA-OL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-VINYL-GUAIACOL	4	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-VINYL-PHENOL	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Seed	1440.0	18581.0	1.79	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMINODIMETHYL-GAMMA-BUTYROTHETIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAROTENE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Shoot	50.0	645.0	-1.41	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Shoot	13.0	700.0	-1.65	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Shoot	1430.0	18452.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Shoot	0.0	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Root	398.0	3976.0	1.63	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Shoot	100.0	5714.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Root	2900.0	29000.0	-1.10	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Shoot	6000.0	171000.0	1.58	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGOSIDES	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGUSIC-ACID	4	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARASAPONINS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Shoot	3550.0	45805.0	0.77	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Shoot	2.0	70.0	-1.04	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	2	Martindale's 28th
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	8	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fumigant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Fungicide	5	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	3	Martindale's 28th
Hemostat	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.