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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
FORSKOLIN 34 Tuber 4630.0 *
GAMMA-CURCUMENE 0 Root Essent. Oil 50000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf Essent. Oil 2100.0 -0.70 Jim Duke's personal files.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Stem Essent. Oil 2100.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
HUMULENE 2 Root Essent. Oil 17000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOOL 53 Leaf Essent. Oil 3900.0 -0.67 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALOOL 53 Stem Essent. Oil 3900.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Leaf Essent. Oil 8100.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Stem Essent. Oil 8100.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
MANOOL-OXIDE 0 Root Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE 22 Leaf Essent. Oil 3800.0 -0.35 Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE 22 Root Essent. Oil 4000.0 -0.62 Jim Duke's personal files.
MYRCENE 22 Stem Essent. Oil 3800.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
NONAN-3-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil 6000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf Essent. Oil 24600.0 -0.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE 16 Root Essent. Oil 2000.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
P-CYMENE 16 Stem Essent. Oil 24600.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
PHYTANE 0 Root Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
PIPERITONE 7 Leaf Essent. Oil 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
PLECTRIN 0 Leaf 1000.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Vermifuge 1 *
Verrucolytic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide 1 Wealth of India.
Vulnerary 3 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.