Plant Castanea sativa (Fagaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

European Chestnut

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
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Seed	2558.0	5628.0	-1.52	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Seed	1070.0	2353.0	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
HAMAMELITANNIN	2	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HAMAMELOSE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Seed	554.0	1218.0	-1.30	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	7.0	16.0	-0.63	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Seed	782.0	1720.0	-1.12	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	1144.0	2518.0	-1.39	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	1189.0	2617.0	-1.28	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	320.0	704.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	5.0	13.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Seed	468.0	1028.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	842.0	1851.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	490.0	1122.0	-1.12	Duke, 1992 *
PLASTOQUINONES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Styptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	2	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Sweetener	1	Merck 11th Edition
Teratologic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	3	Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	6	Kashiwada, Y., Nonaka, G. I., Nishioka, I., Lee, J. H., Bori, I., Fukushima, Y., Bastow, K. F., Lee, K. H. 1993. Tannins as Potent Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase II in vitro. J Pharm Sci, 82: 487-492.
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Triglycerigenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *