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

Common Names

Turmeric; Indian Saffron

How this plant is used

Food

Download these results as:

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
BETA-PINENE	13	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	2700.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SESQUIPHELLANDRENE	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	510.0	-0.26	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-TURMERONE	5	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-(4-HYDROXY-CINNAMOYL)-METHANE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-(4-HYDROXY-CINNAMOYL)-METHANE	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-(P-HYDROXY-CINNAMOYL)-METHANE	0	Rhizome	not available	1360.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-(PARA-HYDROXY-CINNAMOYL)-METHANE	0	Rhizome	not available	1360.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-DEMETHOXYCURCUMIN	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-DEMETHOXYCURCUMIN	16	Rhizome	6.6	16200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-DEMETHOXYCURCUMIN	16	Root	not available	400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-DESMETHOXYCURCUMIN	5	Rhizome	67.0	28000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLA-3,10-DIEN-2-ONE	0	Rhizome	not available	13.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISACUMOL	0	Rhizome	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISACURONE	0	Rhizome	not available	9.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	6	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihypercholesterolemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiimpotence	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.