Plant Carya ovata (Juglandaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Shagbark Hickory

How this plant is used

Food

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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
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	900.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Shoot	125.0	21600.0	1.95	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	58.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Shoot	37.0	2700.0	1.08	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Seed	not available	0.1	-0.84	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Shoot	0.0	18.0	0.32	Duke, 1992 *
NEODYMIUM	0	Shoot	0.0	13.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Seed	not available	9.8	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Shoot	0.3	23.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Shoot	110.0	1620.0	-0.80	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed Oil	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	not available	5361.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Shoot	550.0	14400.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIDIUM	0	Seed	not available	4.0	-1.02	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIDIUM	0	Shoot	18.0	192.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
SAMARIUM	0	Seed	not available	0.1	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
SCANDIUM	0	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Seed	not available	1180.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Shoot	172.0	2250.0	-1.00	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
Antitinnitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTourette's	1	Martindale's 28th
Antitriglyceride	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitumor	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antitumor (brain)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitumor (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	2	Martindale's 28th
Antiulcerogenic	1	Rafatullah, S., Tariq, M., Al-Yahya, M.A., Mossa, J.S., and Ageel, A.M. 1989. Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) for Gastric and Duodenal Antiulcer Activity in Rats. J. of Ethnopharmacology, 29: 25-34, 1990.
Antivaginitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiviral	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic	5	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Lugemwa, F.N., Huang, F-Y., Bentley, M.D., Mendel, M.J., and Alford, A.R. 1990. A Heliothis zea Antifeedant from the Abundant Birchbark Triterpene Betulin. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38(2): 493-494.
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).