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Plant Citrus limon (Rutaceae)

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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihemolytic 1 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatoadenomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 11 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 11 Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic 17 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihypotensive 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).