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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Brassica nigra (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Black Mustard
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
ZINC 77 Leaf 2.0 40.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Breast) 1 *
Antitumor (CNS) 1 *
Antitumor (Colon) 4 *
Antitumor (Forestomach) 2 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 *
Antitumor (Liver) 2 *
Antitumor (Lung) 2 *
Antitumor (Mouth) 1 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 1 *
Antitumor (Skin) 4 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 5 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Antiulcer 8 *
Antiulcerogenic 1 *
Antiuremic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivertigo 1 *
Antiviral 7 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th