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	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(+)-CIS-ABSCISIC-ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(+)-DEHYDROVOMIFOLIOL	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(+)-DEHYDROVOMIFOLIOL	Seed	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-TRANS-2-ABSCISIC-ACID	Seed	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-TRANS-ABSCISIC-ACID	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(+)-VOMIFOLIOL	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-VOMIFOLIOL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-O-FERULOYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-O-P-COUMAROYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSE	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2,4-METHYLENE-CHOLESTEROL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-CARBOXYARABINITOL	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
22-DIHYDRO-SPINASTEROL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
22-DIHYDROBRASSICASTEROL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-BETA-ETHYL-25(27)-DEHYDROLATHOSTEROL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-ETHYL-5-ALPHA-CHOLESTA-5,22-DIEN-3-BETA-OL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-ETHYL-5-ALPHA-CHOLESTA-7,22,25-TRIEN-3-BETA-OL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-ETHYL-5-ALPHA-CHOLESTA-7,25-DIEN-3-BETA-OL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYL-CHOLEST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYL-LATHOSTEROL	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24ALPHA-ETHYLLATHOSTEROL	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.

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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
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelminthic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	1	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	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	7	Duke, 1992 *