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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Brassica oleracea var. botrytis l. (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Cauliflower
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
botrytis
Variety Author
L.
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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
INDOLE-3-CARBOXYLIC-ACID 0 Plant *
INDOYL-3-METHYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Flower *
IRON 6 Flower 5.0 122.0 -0.30 *
IRON 6 Leaf 8.0 109.0 -0.64 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Flower 760.0 9820.0 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Leaf 1090.0 11707.0 -0.09 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Flower 30.0 -1.08 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf *
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf 280.0 3007.0 -0.02 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Plant 240.0 3100.0 -0.19 *
LEAD 0 Flower *
LEAD 0 Leaf 0.0 1.0 -0.64 *
LEUCINE 2 Flower 1160.0 15000.0 *
LEUCINE 2 Leaf 1310.0 14069.0 -0.38 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Flower 190.0 2455.0 0.45 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf 380.0 4081.0 -0.69 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Flower 640.0 8270.0 1.00 *
LYSINE 4 Flower 1070.0 13825.0 *
LYSINE 4 Leaf 1410.0 15143.0 0.52 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Flower 115.0 2250.0 -0.41 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 5 Newmark, T. M. and Schulick, P. 2000. Herbal Cox-2 Inhibition - Nature's Challenge to Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease. Hohm Press, Prescott AZ.
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 3 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 5 *
Decongestant 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deodorant 2 Merck 11th Edition
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 3 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *