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

Download these results as:

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
NORCAPSAICIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORDIHYDROCAPSAICIN	0	Fruit	15.0	335.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOVIVAMIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTOPAMINE	0	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.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	110.0	898.0	-0.47	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	540.0	2.29	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHYL-ACETOPHENONE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-XYLENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	150.0	1224.0	-0.35	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	1.0	5.0	-0.84	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PENTADECANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTANOIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	620.0	5059.0	0.60	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
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.