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

Common Names
Lemon
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
THYMOL 71 Pericarp Essent. Oil 53000.0 111000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 7500.0 0.03 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRANS-LIMONENE-1,2-OXIDE 0 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECANAL 0 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TYRAMINE 11 Leaf *
UMBELLIFERONE 22 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
UMBELLIPRENIN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECANAL 2 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
VALENCENE 0 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
VICENIN-2 12 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
VIOLAXANTHIN 2 Leaf *
WATER 0 Fruit 850000.0 894000.0 0.54 *
XANTHOXYLETIN 1 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
XANTHYLETIN 1 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
XYLOSYL-VITEXIN 0 Flower *
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiinfertility 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 34 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic 1 *
Antijet-lag 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antikeratitic 1 *
Antilaryngitic 1 *
AntiLegionella 1 *
Antileishmanic 4 *
Antilepric 2 Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic 10 *
Antileukodermic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antileukoplakic 1 *
Antileukotriene 4 *
Antileukotrienogenic 1 *
Antilipogenic 2 *
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilipoperoxidant 2 *