Common Names
Cayenne; Chili; Tabasco; Hot Pepper; Spur Pepper; Red Chili
How this plant is used
Food
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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XYLOSE | 3 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ZEAXANTHIN | 5 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ZINC | 77 | Fruit | 3.0 | 24.0 | -0.19 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
ZUCAPSAICIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
---|---|---|
Toxic | 3 | Martindale's 28th |
Tranquilizer | 4 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
Transdermal | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
Tremorigenic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Trichomonicide | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
Tumor-Promoter | 1 | J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079. |
Tumorigenic | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170. |
Ubiquiot | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Ulcerogenic | 2 | HerbalGram No. 20, page 9. |
Uricosuric | 4 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Urinary-Acidulant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Urine-Acidifier | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Urine-Deodorant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Uterorelaxant | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Uterosedative | 2 | 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. |
Uterotrophic | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999. |
Varroacide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Vasodilator | 13 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |