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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Caulophyllum thalictroides (Berberidaceae)

Common Names
Blue Cohosh
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SELENIUM 60 Root 0.4 3.5 -0.11 *
SILICON 4 Root 0.7 6.3 -0.31 *
SODIUM 1 Root 3.2 29.0 -0.50 *
STARCH 5 Root 15400.0 140000.0 -0.74 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMIN 31 Root 9.3 0.23 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE 0 Root 1.0 9.3 1.02 *
TIN 4 Root 2.3 21.0 0.46 *
WATER 0 Root 890000.0 0.79 *
XYLOSE 3 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
ZINC 77 Root *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glaucomagenic 1 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 1 *
Hepatoprotective 3 *
Hepatotoxic 1 *
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 2 *
Hypertensive 2 *
Hypocholesterolemic 14 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 7 *
Hypolipidemic 2 *
Hypotensive 9 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
Immunomodulator 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.