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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
COLEUS-BARBATUS-SECO-ABIENTANE-DITERPENE-1 0 Stem 60.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
COLEUS-BARBATUS-SECO-DITERPENE-2 0 Stem 10.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
COPAENE 1 Leaf Essent. Oil 30600.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
COPAENE 1 Stem Essent. Oil 30600.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CROCETIN-DIALDEHYDE 0 Root 20.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CROCETIN-DIALDEHYDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
CUPARENE 1 Root Essent. Oil 16000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CYCLOBUTATUSIN 0 Leaf 80.0 *
DEACETYL-FORSKOHLIN 0 Plant Phytochemistry, 29: 821.
DEACETYL-FORSKOLIN 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
DEACETYL-FORSKOLIN 0 Root 51.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
DECAN-3-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil 177000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDROABIETANE 3 Root Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Stem Essent. Oil 63500.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
DELTA-SELINENE 0 Root Essent. Oil 4000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
DEOXYCOLEONOL 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
FORSKOLIN 34 Plant 500.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
FORSKOLIN 34 Root 14.0 4400.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
FORSKOLIN 34 Shoot 90.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
FORSKOLIN 34 Tissue Culture 500.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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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.