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

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Asparagus

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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
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	6.5	65.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Shoot	0.3	120.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Shoot	6.0	104.0	1.49	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Shoot	0.0	0.1	-1.32	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	265.0	2650.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Shoot	160.0	3840.0	-0.80	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Shoot	36000.0	602000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Root	0.2	1.5	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Shoot	0.1	0.7	-1.12	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Shoot	0.1	0.1	-0.92	Duke, 1992 *
CONIFERIN	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Shoot	1.0	24.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-RHAMNOSYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-RHAMNOSYLGLUCOSYLGLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Shoot	360.0	4645.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	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.