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Common Names
Coffee
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUGAR | 0 | Seed | not available | 4300.0 | -0.90 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| TANNIC-ACID | 41 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Seed | not available | 90000.0 | 0.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TETRACOSIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| THEOBROMINE | 21 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THEOBROMINE | 21 | Seed | 18.0 | 20.0 | -0.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THEOPHYLLINE | 36 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THEOPHYLLINE | 36 | Seed | not available | 5.0 | -0.81 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Seed | not available | 2.0 | -1.09 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| TRIGONELLINE | 15 | Seed | 3000.0 | 13000.0 | 2.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| WATER | 0 | Seed | 60000.0 | 100000.0 | -0.49 | Duke, 1992 * |
| WAX | 0 | Seed | 10000.0 | 14000.0 | 1.27 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| XANTHINE | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| XYLAN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Prostaglandigenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Secretor | 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. |
| Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Psychotropic | 1 | 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. |
| Pyrogenic | 1 | Daroca, P., Rodriguez, J., Reano, M., Canto, G., Miranda, P. 1996. Fever From Caffeine. Allergy, 51(3): 189-191. |
| Refrigerant | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Renotoxic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Respiraparalytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Respirastimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Roborant | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Rodenticide | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Sedative | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Serotoninergic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Soap | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Spasmogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Spermicide | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Stimulant | 3 | R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R. |
| Sunscreen | 4 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Suppository | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Suppurative | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |