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Plant Citrus limon (Rutaceae)

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
HEXANOL 3 Essential Oil not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ICHANGIN-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ICHANGIN-4-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pericarp not available 19.6 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
IMPERATORIN 25 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IMPERATORIN 25 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
IRON 6 Fruit 23.0 72.0 -0.24 Duke, 1992 *
ISOERIOCITRIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOIMPERATORIN 8 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOIMPERATORIN 8 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOLIMOCITROL 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOLIMOCITROL-3,7,4'-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOLIMOCITROL-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOPIMPINELLIN 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOPULEGOL 3 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 40000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOPULEGOLE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 18000.0 114000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ISORHAMNETIN 11 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-ARABINOGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISORHOIFOLIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOVITEXIN 4 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
JASMONIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Pericarp 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
Antiaflatoxin 5 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 13 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic 2 Yakugaku Zasshi, 111: 193, 1991.
Antiallergic 14 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antialzheimeran 6 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 2 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiamnesic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiamyloid-Beta 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic 3 Meli, R., Autore, G., Di Carlo, G., Capasso, F. Inhibitory Action of Quercetin on Intestinal Transit in Mice. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 201, 1990.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antianginal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiangiogenic 3 Duke, 1992 *