Plant Citrus medica (Rutaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Citron

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
3,5,6-TRIHYDROXY-7,3',4'-TRIMETHOXY-FLAVONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,5,6-TRIHYDROXY-7,4'-DIMETHOXY-FLAVONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Fruit	not available	1.6	1.56	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	not available	6840.0	0.69	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL	53	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	not available	9.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
D-LIMONENE	19	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIPENTENE	7	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETATE	5	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HESPERIDIN	31	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	not available	60.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
LINALYL-ACETATE	7	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	not available	950.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	not available	9.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
NORDENTATIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLANDRENE	4	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	not available	15500.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Fruit	not available	113.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHYLETIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	not available	14.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *

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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
CNS-Depressant	2	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glaucomagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.