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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
STACHYDRINE 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit not available 10.0 -1.03 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SUBEROSIN 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SYNEPHRINE 5 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SYNEPHRINE 5 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
SYRINGIN 9 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
TANGERETIN 15 Pericarp not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil 1.0 40.0 -0.62 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 29600.0 31000.0 -0.29 Jim Duke's personal files.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Pericarp Essent. Oil 1000.0 11000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Petiole not available 22.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE 9 Essential Oil 14.0 120.0 -0.39 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINOLENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
TERPINOLENE 9 Pericarp Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
TERPINOLENE 9 Petiole not available 26.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECANAL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TETRADECANE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TETRAHYDROGERANIOL 0 Essential Oil not available 10.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 4.0 6.0 0.09 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THYMOL 71 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 11000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
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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).