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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P-CYMENE | 16 | Pericarp Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| P-CYMENE | 16 | Petiole | not available | 7.5 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| P-CYMOL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| P-MENTHA-1,8-DIEN-9-YL-ACETATE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| P-MENTHA-2,8-DIEN-1-OL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PABULENOL | 1 | Fruit Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PECTIN | 24 | Exocarp | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PECTIN | 24 | Pericarp | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PENTADECANAL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| PENTADECANE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PERILLALDEHYDE | 11 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHELLOPTERIN | 2 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980. |
| PHELLOPTERIN | 2 | Fruit Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHLORIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | 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 | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Fruit | not available | 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 |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Uterosedative | 2 | Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990. |
| Uterotrophic | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999. |
| Varroacide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vasoconstrictor | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Vasodilator | 12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vasopressor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| VEGF-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Venoprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Venotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vermicide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Verrucolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vibriocide | 1 | Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
| Vulnerary | 4 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor | 5 | Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772. |