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
FAT	0	Root	2400.0	24000.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Shoot	2000.0	41000.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Shoot	7000.0	141000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Root	not available	141000.0	0.88	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Root	not available	390000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Shoot	1.0	18.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Shoot	5010.0	64645.0	0.98	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Shoot	990.0	12774.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Root	11000.0	110000.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Shoot	470.0	6065.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULIN	19	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Root	1.2	12.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Shoot	6.0	240.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Shoot	1120.0	14452.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
JAMOGENIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Root	not available	not available	not available	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
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.