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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
CITRONETIN 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CITRONIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
CITROPTEN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITROPTEN 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSIN-A 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSIN-B 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSIN-C 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CITRUSIN-F 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CNIDICIN 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CONIFERIN 2 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
COUMARINS 0 Pt not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
D-GALACTURONIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-LIMONENE 19 Essential Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
D-LIMONENE 19 Leaf Essent. Oil 99000.0 667000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
D-LIMONENE 19 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
D-LIMONENE 19 Pericarp Essent. Oil not available 694400.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
DEACETYL-NOMILIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
DEACETYL-NOMILIN-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-1-AL 1 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
DECANAL 0 Essential Oil 6.0 20.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
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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 *