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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STACHYDRINE | 6 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Fruit | not available | 10.0 | -1.03 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| SUBEROSIN | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| SYNEPHRINE | 5 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| SYNEPHRINE | 5 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| SYRINGIN | 9 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TANGERETIN | 15 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Essential Oil | 1.0 | 40.0 | -0.62 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Leaf Essent. Oil | 29600.0 | 31000.0 | -0.29 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Pericarp Essent. Oil | 1000.0 | 11000.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TERPINEN-4-OL | 23 | Petiole | not available | 22.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TERPINOLENE | 9 | Essential Oil | 14.0 | 120.0 | -0.39 | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TERPINOLENE | 9 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TERPINOLENE | 9 | Pericarp Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| TERPINOLENE | 9 | Petiole | not available | 26.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TETRADECANAL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TETRADECANE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| TETRAHYDROGERANIOL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | 10.0 | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Fruit | 4.0 | 6.0 | 0.09 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| THYMOL | 71 | Leaf Essent. Oil | not available | 11000.0 | 1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Estrogenic? | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Expectorant | 11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 44 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungiphilic | 1 | J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283. |
| Fungistat | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GABA-nergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastroirritant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gastroprotective | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glaucomagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucogonogenic | 1 | LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp. |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Gram(+)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GST-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |