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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
DIHYDROKAEMPFEROL-4'-METHYL-ETHER-7-O-RHAMNOSIDE 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
DIOSMETIN-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNO-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
DIOSMIN 34 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
DIOSMIN 34 Pericarp *
DODECANAL 2 Fruit 5.0 20.0 0.99 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ELEMOL 2 Root Bark 28200.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
EO 0 Fruit 7500.0 10000.0 -0.63 Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
EO 0 Pericarp 15000.0 20000.0 1.28 *
EPOXY-NOOTKATONE 0 Pericarp *
EPOXY-NOOTKATONE 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
EPOXY-VALENCENE 0 Fruit *
EPOXY-VALENCENE 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ERIOCITRIN 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
ERIOCITRIN 0 Pericarp Jim Duke's personal files.
ETA-CAROTENE 0 Pericarp *
ETHANOL 24 Fruit Juice 64.0 900.0 1.00 *
ETHYL-ACETATE 6 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.6 *
ETHYL-BUTYRATE 1 Fruit Juice 0.1 1.0 *
ETHYL-SUBERENOL 0 Root Bark 700.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ETROGOL 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Mosquitofuge 2 *
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 *
Mycobactericide 3 *
Myoprotective 1 *
Myorelaxant 8 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Natriuretic 1 *
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 *
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