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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Carica papaya (Caricaceae)

Common Names
Papaya
How this plant is used
Food

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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
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Fruit 60.0 537.0 -0.35 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 5389.0 -0.87 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed Oil 4000.0 -1.52 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
LYCOPENE 16 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LYCOPENE 16 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LYSINE 4 Fruit 250.0 2238.0 -0.49 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LYSOZYME 0 Latex Exudate Jim Duke's personal files.
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 110.0 815.0 -0.61 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Fruit 3150.0 23333.0 0.57 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Latex Exudate 4400.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 0.1 1.0 -0.40 *
METHANOL 2 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
METHIONINE 15 Fruit 10.0 179.0 -0.96 *
METHYL-ACETATE 3 Fruit *
METHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
METHYL-CYCLOHEXANE 0 Fruit 0.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
METHYL-GERANATE 0 Fruit *
METHYL-HEXANOATE 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Prooxidant 5 *
Propecic 5 *
Prostaglandigenic 1 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Ferretti, A., Flanagan, V. P. 1996. Antithromboxane Activity of Dietary Alpha-linolenic Acid: A Pilot Study. Prostaglandins Leukotrienes Essential Fatty Acids, 54(6): 451-455. ARS, USDA.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 *
Proteolytic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Protisticide 1 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Respiradepressant 1 *
Respirotoxic 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Scabicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sclerosant 1 Martindale's 29th
Secretogogue 1 *
Sedative 8 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC