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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
Antileukotriene 4 *
Antileukotriene-D4 3 *
Antileukotrienogenic 1 *
Antilipolytic 3 Kuppusamy, U.R., and Das, N.P. 1993. Antilipolytic Action of Hesperetin in Rat Adipocytes. Planta Medica, 59: 508.
Antilipoperoxidant 2 *
Antilithic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilupus 1 Martindale's 28th
AntiLyme 5 *
Antilymphomic 3 *
Antimaculitic 3 *
Antimalarial 3 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic 2 *
Antimelanomic 4 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 3 *
Antimenorrhagic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 4 *