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Common Names
Petitgrain; Bitter Orange
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRANS-HEXEN-2-AL-1 | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRANS-OCIMENE | 0 | Leaf | 1.0 | 332.0 | 0.21 | Duke, 1992 * |
| UMBELLIFERONE | 22 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| UNDECANAL | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VALENCENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Hull Husk | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| WATER | 0 | Fruit | 857000.0 | 892000.0 | 0.53 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| ZEAXANTHIN | 5 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| ZINC | 77 | Fruit | not available | 16.0 | -0.43 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antimalarial | 1 | Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986. |
| Antimange | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimastalgic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antimastitic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antimeasles | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antimelanomic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiMeniere's | 1 | Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705. |
| Antimenopausal | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimenorrhagic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antimetastatic | 4 | Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh. |
| Antimetastatic (Stomach) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimigraine | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antimite | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimitotic | 3 | Gawron, A. and Glowniak, K. 1987. Cytostatic Activity of Coumarins in vitro. Planta Medica 1987: 526. |
| Antimitral-valve-prolapse | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimononuccleotic | 1 | Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh. |
| AntiMS | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antimutagenic | 16 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235. |
| Antimycoplasmotic | 1 | Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh. |
| Antimyocarditic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |