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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Cocos nucifera (Arecaceae)

Common Names
Coconut; Coconut Palm; Copra; Nariyal; Kokospalme (Ger.); Cocotero (Sp.)
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
N-HEPTACOSANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-HEPTADECANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-HEXACOSANE 2 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-NONACOSANE 1 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-NONADECANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-OCTACOSANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-OCTADECANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-PENTACOSANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-TETRACOSANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-TRIACONTANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
N-TRICOSANE 0 Seed Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
NIACIN 39 Seed 5.0 10.0 -0.98 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NICKEL 3 Seed 2.1 -0.51 Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
NITROGEN 0 Hull Husk 1100.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
OCTANOIC-ACID 5 Endosperm Jim Duke's personal files.
OCTANOIC-ACID 5 Seed 4670.0 57520.0 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 2920.0 58958.0 -0.49 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 4380.0 75495.0 0.86 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiphenylketonuric 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiphotophobic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiplaque 2 Martindale's 29th
AntiPMS 3 *
Antipneumonic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antipoliomyelitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolyneuritic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 2 *
Antiprostaglandin 3 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 5 *
Antiprostatotic 1 *
Antipruritic 2 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipsychotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 10 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.