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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Citrus limon (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Lemon
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
QUERCETIN 176 Flower *
QUERCETIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
RHOIFOLIN 2 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 2.0 3.0 -0.43 *
RUTIN 87 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -0.65 *
RUTIN 87 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE 5 Essential Oil 50.0 175.0 -0.59 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SABINENE 5 Leaf Essent. Oil 10000.0 -0.47 Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE 5 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE 5 Petiole 95.0 *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.0 -0.34 *
SCOPARONE 22 Bark 162.5 Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPARONE 22 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPOLETIN 44 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPOLETIN 44 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
SELINENE 1 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SESELIN 3 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
SESELIN 3 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit 14.0 18.0 0.63 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 470.0 -0.14 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hemostat 4 *
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 13 *
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 2 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 13 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor 1 *
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hyperglycemic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hypertensive 4 *
Hypnotic 1 *
Hypocholesterolemic 15 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 11 *
Hypolipidemic 5 *