Plant Citrus limon (Rutaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
P-CYMENE	16	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE	16	Petiole	not available	7.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-1,8-DIEN-9-YL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PABULENOL	1	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Exocarp	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PECTIN	24	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADECANAL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PENTADECANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERILLALDEHYDE	11	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLOPTERIN	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PHELLOPTERIN	2	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PHLORIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	100.0	1979.0	-0.38	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	not available	120.0	-1.06	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PONCIRIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	not available	14700.0	-0.28	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	10000.0	111000.0	0.02	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	10	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	5	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Emmenagogue	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterotoxic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Ergotamine-Enhancer	1	Martindale's 29th
ERK-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
ERK-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	9	Duke, 1992 *