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
TERPINEOL	18	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Leaf	115.0	485.0	0.39	Duke, 1992 *
TETRAHYDROCURCUMIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Rhizome	0.0	8.0	0.17	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOLYL-METHYLCARBINOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIETHYLCURCUMIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURMERIN	3	Rhizome	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURMERONE	4	Rhizome	1800.0	43200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURMERONE	4	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	240700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURMERONE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURMERONOL-A	1	Rhizome	not available	282.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURMERONOL-B	1	Rhizome	not available	193.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UKONAN-A	3	Rhizome	33.0	6600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UKONAN-B	2	Rhizome	not available	47.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UKONAN-C	0	Rhizome	52.0	315.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UKONAN-D	0	Rhizome	not available	41.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UNSATURATED-FATTY-ACIDS	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	690000.0	-0.35	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
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoregenerative	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.
Hepatotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	9	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.