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Common Names
Pecan
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CATECHIN | 43 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CESIUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.3 | 0.25 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHLORINE | 7 | Seed | not available | 46.0 | -0.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHROMIUM | 24 | Seed | not available | 0.3 | -0.64 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COBALT | 2 | Seed | not available | 0.4 | -0.19 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COPPER | 12 | Seed | not available | 15.0 | 0.02 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EUROPIUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | 712000.0 | 753000.0 | 2.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER | 15 | Seed | 22000.0 | 24000.0 | -0.87 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FLUORINE | 0 | Seed | not available | 1.6 | 0.07 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GOLD | 3 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.54 | Duke, 1992 * |
| HAFNIUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.1 | 0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| IODINE | 12 | Seed | not available | 0.1 | -0.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRON | 6 | Seed | 24.0 | 73.0 | -0.36 | Duke, 1992 * |
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Seed | 6670.0 | 7180.0 | 1.82 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LANTHANUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ACID | 7 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LEAD | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.3 | -0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Myorelaxant | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Nematicide | 3 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Nephrotoxic | 4 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Neuroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Neurotransmitter | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| NF-kB-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Osteogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Pancreatoxic | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
| Parasiticide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 2 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Pesticide | 12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phagocytotic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Propecic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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. |
| Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protisticide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |