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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
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigenotoxic 2 *
Antigingivitic 5 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 2 *
Antigranular 1 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihalitosic 1 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover 4 *