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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Orange
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
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Fruit 12.0 14.0 -0.57 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit 35.0 40.0 -0.71 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit Juice 0.2 -1.00 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Plant *
ALPHA-SINENSAL 0 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -1.00 *
ALPHA-SINENSAL 0 Pericarp Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALPHA-SINESAL 0 Fruit 3.0 -1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-SINESAL 0 Pericarp Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit 1.0 2.0 -0.45 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 2.0 3.0 -0.41 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Juice 0.1 1.1 -0.65 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 0.7 1.0 -0.60 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Fruit 4.0 29.0 -0.68 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 1.0 165.0 -0.18 *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Fruit *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
ANTHRANILIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNO-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
APIGENIN-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiretinopathic 2 *
Antiretinotic 2 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 8 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.
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 2 Martindale's 29th
AntiRNA 1 *
Antisalmonella 4 *
Antischizophrenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 3 *
Antiseptic 28 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiserotonergic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling 4 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.