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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
(+)-FERRUGINOL 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.
(+)-FERRUGINOL 0 Stem 700.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
1,9-DIDEOXY-7-DEACETYL-FORSKOHLIN 0 Plant Phytochemistry, 29: 821.
1,9-DIDEOXYCOLEONOL 0 Root 80.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
1,9-DIDEOXYFORSKOHLIN 0 Plant Phytochemistry, 29: 821.
1,9-DIDEOXYFORSKOLIN 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
1,9-DIDEOXYFORSKOLIN 0 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
1-ACETOXY-COLEOSOL 0 Root 12.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
1-ACETYL-FORSKOLIN 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
1-ALPHA-6-BETA-7-ALPHA-TRIACETYL-COLEONOL-B 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
1-DEOXYFORSKOLIN 0 Root 10.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
16(R)-PLECTRINON-A 0 Leaf 10.8 Jim Duke's personal files.
20-DEOXOCARNOSOL 0 Stem 585.0 -1.00 *
3BETA-HYDROXY-3-DEOXYBARBATUSIN 0 Leaf 140.0 *
6-ALPHA-HYDROXY-CARNOSOL 0 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
6-BETA-7-BETA-DIHYDROXY-8,13-EPOXY-LABD-14-EN-11-ONE 0 Root 24.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
6BETA,7BETA,9ALPHA-TRIHYDROXY-8,13-EPOXY-LABD-14-EN-11-ONE 0 Plant Phytochemistry, 29: 821.
6BETA,7BETA,9ALPHA-TRIHYDROXY-8,13-EPOXY-LABD-14-EN-11-ONE 0 Root 26.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
6BETA-HYDROXY-8,13-EPOXY-LABD-14-EN-11-ONE 0 Plant Phytochemistry, 29: 821.
6BETA-HYDROXY-8,13-EPOXY-LABD-14-EN-11-ONE 0 Root 20.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antistomatitic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 2 *
Antisunburn 1 *
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombotic 1 Bezanger-Beauquesne, L. Noveautes en Phytotherapie. Huitieme Revue. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 25: 46-76, 1991.
Antithyreotropic 1 *
Antithyroid 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitumor 4 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antitumor (Skin) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 1 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 2 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Antiulcer 2 Yamahara, J., et al. Stomachic principles in ginger. II. Pungent and anti-ulcer effects of low polar constituents isolated from ginger, the dried rhizoma of... Yakugaku Zasshi 112: 645-655 (1992).
Antiulcerogenic 1 *
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiviral 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antiyeast 1 *
Anxiolytic 1 *
Apoptotic 1 *
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.