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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
P-CYMENE 16 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE 16 Petiole 7.5 *
P-CYMOL 0 Essential Oil *
P-MENTHA-1,8-DIEN-9-YL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil *
PABULENOL 1 Fruit Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
PE 0 Plant *
PECTIN 24 Exocarp Jim Duke's personal files.
PECTIN 24 Pericarp *
PENTADECANAL 0 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PENTADECANE 0 Plant *
PERILLALDEHYDE 11 Fruit *
PHELLOPTERIN 2 Essential Oil Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PHELLOPTERIN 2 Fruit Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
PHLORIN 0 Plant 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 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 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
ProHLDL 1 *
Proliferant 2 *
Prooxidant 5 *
Prostaglandigenic 3 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 3 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 *
Prostatitigenic 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 2 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 2 Martindale's 29th
PTK-Inhibitor 2 *
Pyrogenic 2 Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 4 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Radioprotective 3 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Renoirritant 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.
Respirastimulant 2 Martindale's 29th
Retinoprotectant Optometry 1 *
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Secretogogue 1 *