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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
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Leaf Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf Essent. Oil 0.8 15600.0 1.32 Jim Duke's personal files.
CHLOROPHYLL-A 0 Leaf *
CHLOROPHYLL-B 0 Leaf *
CIS-LIMONENE-1,2-OXIDE 0 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRAL 53 Essential Oil 250.0 300.0 -0.79 *
CITRAL 53 Fruit Essent. Oil 6000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRAL 53 Pericarp *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit 59500.0 0.32 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit Juice Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLAL 20 Essential Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLAL 20 Leaf Essent. Oil 25000.0 89000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLAL 20 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLAL 20 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLAL 20 Petiole 3.0 *
CITRONELLOL 15 Leaf Essent. Oil 3700.0 14000.0 -0.97 Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLOL 15 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLOL 15 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Petiole 1.0 *
CITRONELLYL-ACETATE 2 Plant 4.0 20.0 -0.68 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
Antilithic 4 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilupus 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme 4 *
Antilymphocytic 1 *
Antilymphomic 4 *
Antimaculitic 3 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antimalarial 5 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 *
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.
Antimelanogenic 1 *
Antimelanomic 8 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 2 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 5 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 *
Antimetrorrhagic 1 Fitoterapia No.55-1984.
Antimigraine 3 Martindale's 29th