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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
BETA-BERGAMOTENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 8000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Essential Oil 23.0 400.0 -1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 8000.0 -0.45 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Petiole not available 25.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.0 2.0 -0.15 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 100.0 3500.0 -0.39 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Petiole not available 13.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Essential Oil not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-HUMULENE 0 Essential Oil not available 10.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Essential Oil not available 80.0 -1.25 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 3300.0 -0.64 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Pericarp Essent. Oil not available 65900.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Petiole not available 8.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 40.0 1270.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 7000.0 -0.70 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 7000.0 -0.69 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Pericarp Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Petiole not available 595.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SINENSAL 0 Petiole not available 1.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
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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
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 *