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
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHOIFOLIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	2.0	3.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Fruit	1.0	2.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	10000.0	-0.47	Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE	5	Pericarp Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SABINENE	5	Petiole	not available	95.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPARONE	22	Bark	not available	162.5	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPARONE	22	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPOLETIN	44	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SCOPOLETIN	44	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SELINENE	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SESELIN	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SESELIN	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
SINAPIC-ACID	9	Fruit	14.0	18.0	0.63	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	not available	470.0	-0.14	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Irritant	18	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	4	Duke, 1992 *
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lactagogue	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Larvicide	3	Berenbaum, M. R., The natives knew, Chemtech, (May), 1990, 275-279.
Larvistat	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	8	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lypolytic	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
MDR-Inhibitor	2	Critchfield, J. W., Welsh, C. J., Phang, J. M., Yeh, G. C. 1994. Modulation of Adriamycin Accumulation and Efflux by Flavonoids in HCT-15 Colon Cells. Activation of P-Glycoprotein as a Putative Mechanism. Biochem Pharmacol, 48(7): 1437-1445.