Plant Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pumpkin

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
FAT	0	Seed	300000.0	520000.0	1.34	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Flower	6300.0	130000.0	-0.02	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER	15	Fruit	11000.0	130952.0	-0.10	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER	15	Seed	19690.0	26538.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
FIXED-OIL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOXANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVOXANTHIN	0	Juice	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GABA	22	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed	2740.0	6055.0	0.18	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-29	0	Seed	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A39	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
GIBBERELLIN-A39	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A48	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
GIBBERELLIN-A48	0	Seed	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A49	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
GIBBERELLIN-A49	0	Seed	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	1840.0	35000.0	1.69	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
Antiatherosclerotic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	11	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.