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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
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit 2640.0 -1.55 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LAURALDEHYDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LIMETTIN 0 Essential Oil 295.0 *
LIMETTIN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMOCITRIN 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMOCITRIN-3-(6-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE) 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMOCITRIN-3-(6-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Pericarp *
LIMOCITRIN-3-O-(3 0 Plant *
LIMOCITRIN-3-O-(3-HYDROXY-3-METHYL-GLUTARATE-(1,2)-BETA-GLUCOSIDE 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMOCITRIN-3-O-(5-ALPHA-GLUCOSYL-3 0 Plant *
LIMOCITRIN-3-O-(5-ALPHA-GLUCOSYL-3-HYDROXY-3-METHYL-GLUTARATE-(1,2)-BETA-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMOCITROL 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMOCITROL-3-O-(5-ALPHA-GLUCOSYL-3 0 Plant *
LIMOCITROL-3-O-(5-ALPHA-GLUCOSYL-3-HYDROXY-3-METHYL-GLUTARATE-(1,2)-BETA-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil 2796.0 8000.0 -0.69 *
LIMONENE 60 Fruit Essent. Oil 512000.0 980000.0 1.27 Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONENE 60 Leaf Essent. Oil 284000.0 754000.0 2.65 *
LIMONENE 60 Pericarp Essent. Oil 512000.0 774000.0 *
LIMONENE 60 Petiole 3090.0 *
LIMONIN 5 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 *
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 4 *
Tonic 1 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Shin, C. G., Strayer, J. M., Wani, M., Snapka, R. M. 1990. Rapid Evaluation of Topoisomerase Inhibitors: Caffeine Inhibition of Topoisomerases in vivo. Teratogen Carcinogen Mutagen, 10: 41-52.
Tracheorelaxant 1 *
Tranquilizer 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 5 *
Trichomonicide 9 *
Trypanocide 1 *
Tumor-Promoter 1 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 3 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 2 HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricosuric 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urinary-Antiseptic 1 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.