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Common Names
Lemon
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHLOROPHYLL-B | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CIS-LIMONENE-1,2-OXIDE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRAL | 53 | Essential Oil | 250.0 | 300.0 | -0.79 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRAL | 53 | Fruit Essent. Oil | not available | 6000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRAL | 53 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRIC-ACID | 23 | Fruit | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLAL | 20 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLAL | 20 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 25000.0 | 89000.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLAL | 20 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLAL | 20 | Pericarp Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLAL | 20 | Petiole | not available | 3.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRONELLOL | 15 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 3700.0 | 14000.0 | -0.97 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLOL | 15 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLOL | 15 | Pericarp Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CITRONELLYL-ACETATE | 2 | Petiole | not available | 1.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CITRONELLYL-ACETATE | 2 | Plant | 4.0 | 20.0 | -0.68 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| 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 * |