Plant Avena sativa (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Oats

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
URONIC-ACIDS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Plant	not available	12000.0	0.45	Jim Duke's personal files.*
VALINE	3	Seed	4000.0	11000.0	-0.12	Jim Duke's personal files.*
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
VITAMIN-A	0	Leaf	not available	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-B-1	24	Seed	not available	7.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VITAMIN-B-2	0	Seed	not available	1.3	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2''-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSIDE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN-2'-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
VITEXIN-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	780000.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	48000.0	213000.0	-0.06	Jim Duke's personal files.*
WAX	0	Seed	not available	9000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL-EPOXIDE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ZINC	77	Plant	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
Antidyskinetic	4	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	7	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	8	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienteritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	6	Duke, 1992 *