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
SPERMIDINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SQUALENE	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Cotyledon	28800.0	59100.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Fruit	30.0	759.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	11100.0	69785.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
STELLASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7,22,25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Fruit	4.0	98.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR	0	Fruit	not available	10000.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
SULFOQUINOVOSYL-DIACYL-GLYCEROL	0	Petiole	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Fruit	140.0	5250.0	2.67	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXEROL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.3	7.6	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	150.0	3797.0	0.32	Duke, 1992 *
TIRUCALLOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Fruit	0.3	18.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	40.0	1012.0	0.23	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).