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Plant Citrus sinensis (Rutaceae)

Common Names
Orange
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NOOTKATONE 3 Pericarp Essent. Oil not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
NORDENTATIN 1 Root Bark not available 300.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OBACUNONE 3 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OBACUNONE-17-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OBACUNONE-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
OCTAN-1-AL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTANAL 0 Fruit 12.0 14.0 -0.61 Duke, 1992 *
OCTANAL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.3 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOL 0 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
OCTOPAMINE 0 Fruit 0.0 1.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
OCTYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit not available 10.0 -0.71 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 20.0 1510.0 -0.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OSTHOL 15 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OSTHOLE 4 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit not available 87.0 -0.30 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit 5.0 17.0 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Pericarp 5.0 75.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit 3590.0 4070.0 -0.04 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
Mosquitofuge 2 Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant 4 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Mucotropic 1 Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Mutagenic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Mutagenic? 1 Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide 3 Duke, 1992 *
Myoprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant 8 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide 13 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neurolytic 1 Merck 11th Edition