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

Common Names

Lemon

How this plant is used

Food

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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
DECANAL	0	Petiole	not available	1.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOIC-ACID	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DECANOL	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DECYL-ACETATE	1	Plant	not available	5.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DECYL-ALDEHYDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-3-CARENE	8	Petiole	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CARENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DICONIFERYL-ALCOHOL-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DIOSMETIN	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSMIN	34	Fruit	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSMIN	34	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DIPHENYLAMINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
DODECANAL	2	Essential Oil	not available	10.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DODECANAL	2	Petiole	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECANOIC-ACID	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
EO	0	Pericarp	not available	2600.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Pt	2000.0	6000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
EPIJASMONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ERIOCITRIN	0	Fruit	not available	1.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ERIOCITRIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

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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
Antiimplantation	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiLegionella	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	2	Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic	10	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotrienogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *