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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Coleus barbatus (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Forskohl's Coleus
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Root Essent. Oil 77000.0 -0.37 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Stem Essent. Oil 66800.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 4000.0 -0.40 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Stem Essent. Oil 4000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 -0.84 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Stem Essent. Oil 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINOLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-TERPINOLENE 0 Stem Essent. Oil 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Root Essent. Oil 3000.0 -0.77 Jim Duke's personal files.
BARBATUSIN 0 Leaf 3000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BARBATUSIN 0 Plant Abstract (See species file)
BARBATUSOL 0 Leaf Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
BARBATUSOL 0 Stem 1500.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Root Essent. Oil 13000.0 -0.43 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil 107100.0 0.23 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Stem Essent. Oil 107100.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Root Essent. Oil 14000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-IONONE 13 Root Essent. Oil 64000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Root Essent. Oil 10000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil 40100.0 0.91 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Abortifacient 1 *
Acaricide 3 *
ACE-Inhibitor 4 *
ACTH-genic 1 *
Adenylate-Cyclase-Activator 1 Merck 11th Edition
Adrenergic 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 6 *
Allelochemic 2 *
Allelopathic 4 *
Allergenic 8 *
Amebicide 1 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 1.
Analgesic 6 *
Anesthetic 4 *
Anthelmintic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholine 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 5 *
Antiacne 5 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.