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Common Names
Lemon
How this plant is used
Food
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THYMOL | 71 | Pericarp Essent. Oil | 53000.0 | 111000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE | 0 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 7500.0 | 0.03 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TRANS-LIMONENE-1,2-OXIDE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TRIDECANAL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TYRAMINE | 11 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| UMBELLIFERONE | 22 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| UMBELLIPRENIN | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| UNDECANAL | 2 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| VALENCENE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| VICENIN-2 | 12 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| WATER | 0 | Fruit | 850000.0 | 894000.0 | 0.54 | Duke, 1992 * |
| XANTHOXYLETIN | 1 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| XANTHYLETIN | 1 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| XYLOSYL-VITEXIN | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ZEAXANTHIN | 5 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Cholinergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cicatrizant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Circulotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Clastogenic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| CNS-Active | 1 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| CNS-Depressant | 5 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| CNS-Stimulant | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Co-carcinogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cold-preventive | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Coleoptophile | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Collagen-Sparing | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Collagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Colorant | 5 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| COMT-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Convulsant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Copper-Chelator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Coronary-Dilator | 1 | McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82. |
| Counterirritant | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| COX-1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COX-2-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |