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
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	10.0	253.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	3.0	76.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Fruit	0.0	1.3	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Fruit	1400.0	80000.0	4.58	Duke, 1992 *
NON-TRANS-2-EN-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONA-TRANS-2,CIS-6-DIEN-1-AL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADIEN-2,6-AL-1	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONADIEN-2,6-OL-2	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONEN-2-AL-1	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Cotyledon	55200.0	241000.0	0.92	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	20.0	506.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	116100.0	180000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Cotyledon	213200.0	504700.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	270.0	6835.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	12420.0	20400.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	2.5	63.0	2.86	Duke, 1992 *
PENTADEC-CIS-8-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antilepric	1	Martindale's 29th
Antileukemic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilupus	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary*, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimanic	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.