Plant Chenopodium album (Chenopodiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Lambsquarter

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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
ALANINE	3	Plant	3220.0	20511.0	1.10	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Plant	2530.0	16116.0	0.75	Duke, 1992 *
ASCARIDOLE	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	600.0	9000.0	1.52	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Plant	4310.0	27457.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	71.0	316.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ECDYSTERONE	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Leaf	not available	12200.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	3090.0	33800.0	1.05	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	not available	3000.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	73000.0	500000.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
CHENOPODINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	not available	5.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Plant	890.0	5669.0	1.76	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	8000.0	50960.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	55000.0	85000.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	21000.0	217000.0	0.69	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
Herbicide	3	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypertrichotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	9	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	5	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	2	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95