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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
CAULOPHYLLUM-SAPONIN-3 0 Root 320.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CAULOPHYLLUM-THALICTROIDES 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
CAULOPHYLLUM-THALICTROIDES-GLYCOSIDE-G 0 Root 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CAULOSAPONIN 4 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
CAULOSAPONIN 4 Root 1000.0 4545.0 *
CEROTIC-ACID 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
CEROTINIC-ACID 0 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHROMIUM 24 Root 0.1 1.2 -0.32 *
CITRULLOL 0 Root *
COBALT 2 Root 0.4 3.6 -0.47 *
DAUCOSTEROL 5 Root 17.0 -0.52 Jim Duke's personal files.
EO 0 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FAT 0 Root 660.0 6000.0 -0.56 *
FIBER 15 Root 112000.0 0.53 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Root 112000.0 0.02 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Root 360000.0 -0.42 *
GLUCOSE 7 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
GUM 0 Root 17600.0 160000.0 2.21 *
HEDERAGENIN 9 Root *
IRON 6 Root 18.0 164.0 -0.20 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Soap 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spermicide 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Stomachic 1 *
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tachycardic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Taenicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic 1 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 1 Kobayashi, Y, Yamashita, Y., Fujii, N., Takaboshi, K., Kawakami, T., Kawamura, M., Mizukami, T., Nakano, H. 1995. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I and II Isolated From the Coptis Rhizomes. Planta Medica, 61: 414-418.
Toxic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Tranquilizer 2 *
Trichomonicide 2 Martindale's 29th
Trypanocide 1 *
Ubiquiot 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 1 *
Uricosuric 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uterocontractant 1 *