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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Cynara cardunculus (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Artichoke
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
cardunculus

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CYNAROGENIN 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROLIDE 0 Leaf 330.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROLIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CYNAROPICRIN 6 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROPICRIN 6 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CYNAROPICRIN 6 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROSIDE 3 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROSIDE 3 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROSIDE 3 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROSIDE 3 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
CYNAROTRIOSIDE 0 Leaf 12.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
DECANAL 0 Essential Oil Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
DEHYDROCYNAROPICRIN 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
DICAFFEOYLQUINIC-ACID 8 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DICAFFEOYLQUINIC-ACID 8 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
FAT 0 Flower 1000.0 20000.0 -0.59 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant *
FIBER 15 Flower 11400.0 224000.0 1.13 *
FLAVONOIDS 0 Flower 1000.0 10000.0 -0.83 Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 3 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 *
5-HT-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Acaricide 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 1 *
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Alcohol-Dehydrogenase-Inhibitor 1 Martindale's 29th
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 12 *
Allelochemic 4 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic 1 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 10 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analgesic 11 *
Androgenic 2 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic 2 *
Anesthetic 2 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Angiogenic 1 *