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
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Leaf	5210.0	33188.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Leaf	2490.0	15861.0	1.45	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Leaf	1160.0	7389.0	1.01	Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	12.0	250.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	not available	5.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Leaf	2530.0	16116.0	1.04	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Leaf	3500.0	22295.0	0.89	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	3540.0	22550.0	1.42	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	2920.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	21.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Leaf	490.0	3121.0	0.03	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Plant	not available	0.7	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	12.0	76.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	not available	35.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
OCTACOSANYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Plant	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
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