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Common Names
Saffron
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHENYLALANINE | 7 | Bulb | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYTOENE | 0 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYTOFLUENE | 0 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PICROCROCIN | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PICROCROCIN | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PICROCROCIN | 0 | Silk Stigma Style | 20000.0 | 36000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PICROCROCIN | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PINENE | 12 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| PROLINE | 0 | Bulb | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Silk Stigma Style | 125700.0 | 135800.0 | 1.00 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| PROTOCROCIN | 0 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCETIN | 176 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Abstract (See species file) |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Silk Stigma Style | 56.0 | 138.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SABINENE | 5 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SAFRANAL | 0 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | 405000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLATES | 7 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | 0.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SATIVOL | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERINE | 1 | Bulb | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STARCH | 5 | Silk Stigma Style | 119900.0 | 130300.0 | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Silk Stigma Style | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antidyskinetic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antidyspeptic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antieczemic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antiedemic | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antielastase | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiemetic | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Antiencephalitic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199. |
| Antiencephalopathic | 7 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiepileptic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiescherichic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiesophagitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiestrogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifatigue | 4 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antifeedant | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifertility | 3 | Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989. |
| Antifibrinolytic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |
| Antifibrosarcomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrositic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiflu | 4 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195. |
| Antigastric | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |