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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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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
VERBENONE 5 Shoot 7.2 -0.25 *
VIOLAXANTHIN 2 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
VIT-B-6 0 Leaf 0.8 14.0 -0.13 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VIT-U 0 Leaf 2.0 25.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
WATER 0 Leaf 891000.0 950000.0 0.71 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
YTTERBIUM 0 Leaf 0.2 8.7 0.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
YTTRIUM 0 Leaf 0.5 29.0 1.72 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ZINC 77 Leaf 2.0 41.0 -0.28 *
ZIRCONIUM 0 Leaf 1.4 203.0 2.60 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Deodorant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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 2 *
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 10 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 2 *
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Emetic 2 *
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.