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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Citrus aurantium (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Petitgrain; Bitter Orange
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
OCTANOL 0 Plant *
OCTYL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf 100.0 270.0 -0.18 *
P-CYMENE 16 Plant *
P-CYMOL 0 Plant *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Plant *
PECTIN 24 Pericarp Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PECTIN 24 Plant *
PELARGONALDEHYDE 0 Hull Husk List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PELARGONALDEHYDE 0 Pericarp *
PELARGONIC-ACID 0 Hull Husk List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PELARGONIC-ACID 0 Pericarp *
PELARGONIC-ACID 0 Plant *
PENTANOL 0 Hull Husk List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PENTANOL 0 Pericarp *
PENTANOL 0 Plant *
PHELLANDRENE 4 Hull Husk List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHELLANDRENE 4 Pericarp *
PHELLANDRENE 4 Plant *
PHENOL 26 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 38 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibradykinic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 366.
Antibronchitic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antibrucellosic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 7 *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 *
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Gastric) 1 *
Anticancer (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Pancreas) 2 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 2 *
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Colon) 1 *
Anticarcinomic (Lung) 1 *