Plant Cucumis sativus (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cucumber

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
7,22-STIGMASTADIEN-3BETA-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-DEHYDRO-AVENASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-STIGMASTEN-3BETA-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Fruit	180.0	4557.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Fruit	290.0	7342.0	2.17	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	0.4	38.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Fruit	0.4	21000.0	5.89	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	340.0	8608.0	1.15	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Fruit	0.0	0.3	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	3670.0	140000.0	2.16	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	320.0	8101.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
AVENASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Fruit	2.0	70.0	2.29	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	0.3	8.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PYRAZOL-1-YL-ALANINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	1.0	46.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Toxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Ubiquiot	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Vasodilator	7	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	3	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).