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

Common Names
European Chestnut
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
VESCALIN 0 Plant *
ZINC 77 Seed 4.0 10.0 -1.00 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiendometriotic 1 *
Antienteritic 1 *
Antienterotic 1 *
Antiepileptic 4 *
Antiescherichic 3 *
Antiestrogenic 1 *
Antifatigue 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 2 *
Antifertility 2 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 *
Antifibrotic 1 *
Antiflu 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigingivitic 2 *