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Common Names
Turmeric; Indian Saffron
How this plant is used
Food
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| 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| BORON | 4 | Root | 1.0 | 6.0 | -0.67 | Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages.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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antigallstone | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastric | 1 | Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85. |
| Antigastritic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigenotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 2 | 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. |
| Antiglutamaergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 * |
| AntiGTF | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihalitosic | 1 | American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993. |
| Antihangover | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiheartburn | 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 | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antihepatitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |