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
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	90.0	2278.0	-0.06	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	170.0	4304.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	0.5	13.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	944000.0	971000.0	0.87	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	2.0	157.0	3.81	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Fruit	1.2	2.8	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihangover	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelminthic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antihepatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Antihepatotoxic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	4	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocystinuric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.