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
BORNEOL	35	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Root	1.0	6.0	-0.67	Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Rhizome	not available	5.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	226.0	730.0	-1.38	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Rhizome	270.0	2898.0	-0.88	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALEBIN-A	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Root	not available	90.0	-0.45	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE	9	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	600.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE	0	Leaf	29.0	41.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Rhizome	79000.0	829000.0	0.72	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	not available	13400.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Plant	0.2	0.6	-0.81	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
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).