Plant Capsicum frutescens (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cayenne; Chili; Tabasco; Hot Pepper; Spur Pepper; Red Chili

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
METHYL-NONANOATE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-OCTADECANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-OCTANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PENTANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PHENYLACETATE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-TETRADECANOATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MEVALONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	0.5	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	10.0	82.0	-0.27	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-(13-METHYLTETRADECYL)ACETAMIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXANAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-BETA-CAROTENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOXANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NIACIN	39	Fruit	9.0	158.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Fruit	1.0	1.5	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
NIGROXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADECANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANOIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANOIC-ACID-VANILLYLAMIDE	0	Fruit	2.0	45.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihysteric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimpotence	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	27	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomniac?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinsomnic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antikeratitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiketotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiLegionella	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	2	Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *