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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Citrus limon (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Lemon
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
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 80.0 -0.69 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BRAYLIN 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
BYAKANGELICIN 5 Essential Oil 29.0 *
BYAKANGELICIN 5 Fruit Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
BYAKANGELICOL 0 Essential Oil *
BYAKANGELICOL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CADINENE 4 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit 21.0 35.0 -0.33 *
CAFFEINE 62 Flower 50.0 0.22 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 700.0 3227.0 -0.15 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAMPESTEROL 2 Fruit 20.0 -0.49 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil 2.0 50.0 -0.69 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPHENE 9 Petiole 3.0 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 111000.0 863000.0 0.43 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARVEOL 1 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CARVEOL 1 Petiole 0.0 *
CARVONE 19 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Essential Oil 11.0 28.0 -0.77 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analeptic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Analgesic 15 *
Analgesic-Synergist 1 *
Ancylostomicide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Androgenic 1 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anesthetic 5 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
Ankylostomacide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anti-LDL 1 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 11 *
Antiacne 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodynic 1 *
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.