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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Citrus limon (Rutaceae)

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
LIMONIN 5 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONIN-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONIN-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONOATE-A-RING-LACTONE 0 Fruit *
LIMONOATE-A-RING-LACTONE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOL 0 Essential Oil 8.0 30.0 -1.00 *
LINALOL 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 17000.0 81000.0 -1.00 *
LINALOL 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil 7000.0 110000.0 *
LINALOOL 53 Essential Oil 8.0 30.0 -0.58 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LINALOOL 53 Leaf Essent. Oil 18000.0 81000.0 -0.18 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOOL 53 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOOL 53 Pericarp Essent. Oil 7000.0 111000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOOL 53 Petiole 12.0 *
LINALOOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 22000.0 0.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Essential Oil *
LINONIN 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LUTEIN 15 Fruit 0.1 1.2 -0.73 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Flower *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-D-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
LUTEOLIN-7-O-BETA-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Secretomotor 1 *
Sedative 23 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotonin-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Serotoninergic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Spasmogenic 6 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spasmolytic 1 *
Spermicide 3 Martindale's 28th
Sprout-Inhibitor 1 Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Stimulant 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Stomachic 1 *
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sunscreen 4 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Surfactant 1 *
Sympathomimetic 1 *
Systolic-Depressant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tachycardic 1 *
Teratogenic 4 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Teratologic 1 *
Termiticide 2 *
Termitifuge 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.