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
FERULOYL-P-COUMAROYL-METHANE	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Rhizome	9000.0	84000.0	-1.03	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Plant	not available	63000.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Plant	not available	370000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOIDS	0	Rhizome	90.0	95.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Rhizome	not available	120000.0	1.41	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GAMMA-ATLANTONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GAMMA-ATLANTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Leaf	not available	90.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Rhizome	not available	60.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
GERMACRON-(4S',5S)-EPOXIDE	0	Rhizome	not available	0.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRON-13-AL	0	Rhizome	not available	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRONE	7	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Rhizome	not available	280000.0	1.00	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GUAIACOL	18	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIANE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
IRON	6	Plant	25.0	80.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Rhizome	121.0	467.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBORNEOL	7	Rhizome Essent. Oil	not available	200.0	not available	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
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.