Plant Curcuma longa (Zingiberaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Turmeric; Indian Saffron

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
WATER	0	Rhizome	not available	133000.0	-1.11	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ZEDOARONDIOL	0	Rhizome	not available	35.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Plant	0.5	1.5	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Rhizome	not available	22.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Rhizome	750.0	18000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	81400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINGIBERENE	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor-Promoter	8	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	14	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuricosuric	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	14	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiX-Radiation	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	6	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).