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

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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
BORON	4	Fruit	4.0	17.0	-0.46	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Fruit	not available	32.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	175.0	1560.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Fruit	20.0	30.0	-0.40	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHOR	41	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSAICIN	44	Fruit	100.0	17900.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSAICIN	44	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSAICIN	44	Seed	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSAICIN	44	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSANTHIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CAPSANTHIN-3,6-EPOXIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSANTHIN-5,6-EPOXIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSANTHONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSIAMIDE	0	Fruit	20.0	200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSIDIOL	3	Plant	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.
CAPSIDOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CAPSOLUTEIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPSORUBIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	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
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	7	Merck 11th Edition
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Avifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteriostatic	1	Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoprotectant	1	Duke, 1992 *