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

Common Names
Cabbage; Red Cabbage; White Cabbage
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
capitata
Variety Author
L.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
-METHOXYBRASSITIN 3 Leaf 30.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
1,2-DITHIACYCLOPENT-4-ENE-3-THIONE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
1-CYANO-2,3-EPITHIOPROPANE 0 Leaf *
1-CYANO-2,3-EPITHIOPROPANE 0 Plant *
1-CYANO-2-HYDROXY-3-BUTENE 0 Leaf *
1-CYANO-2-HYDROXY-3-BUTENE 0 Plant *
1-CYANO-3,4-EPITHIOBUTANE 0 Leaf *
1-CYANO-3,4-EPITHIOBUTANE 0 Plant *
1-CYANO-3,4-EPITHIOPENTANE 0 Leaf *
1-CYANO-3,4-EPITHIOPENTANE 0 Plant *
1-CYANO-3-METHYL-SULFINYL-PROPANE 0 Leaf *
1-CYANO-3-METHYL-SULFINYL-PROPANE 0 Plant *
1-CYANO-3-METHYL-THIO-PROPANE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
1-CYANO-4-METHYL-SULFINYL-BUTANE 0 Leaf *
1-CYANO-4-METHYL-SULFINYL-BUTANE 0 Plant *
1-CYANO-4-METHYL-THIO-BUTANE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
1-METHOXY-3-INDOYL-METHYL 0 Leaf *
1-METHOXY-3-INDOYL-METHYL 0 Plant *
1-METHOXY-GLUCOBRASSICIN 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
1-O-FERULOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipyretic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 12 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirespirotic 1 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *
Antiretinopathic 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
Antiretinotic 2 *
Antirheumatic 8 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antisalmonella 1 *
Antischizophrenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 3 *
Antiseptic 17 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiserotonin 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.