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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Elettaria cardamomum (Zingiberaceae)

Common Names
Cardamom
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
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Root Essent. Oil 123000.0 0.14 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Seed Essent. Oil 6900.0 17000.0 -0.62 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Fruit 21.0 60.0 -0.12 Duke, J. A. and duCellier, J. L. 1993. CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL 33431. 536 pp. US $312.50.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Root Essent. Oil 7000.0 -0.65 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit 301.0 4300.0 3.13 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil 17000.0 28000.0 0.35 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed Essent. Oil 44000.0 448400.0 2.15 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil 303300.0 430000.0 1.00 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL ACETATE 0 Seed *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit 1050.0 50000.0 1.41 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Fruit 1330.0 3047.0 2.22 Duke, J. A. and duCellier, J. L. 1993. CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL 33431. 536 pp. US $312.50.
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Plant 1330.0 3047.0 1.30 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Root Essent. Oil 11000.0 -0.64 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Seed *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Seed *
ARACHIDIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
ASCARIDOLE 15 Fruit Duke, J. A. and duCellier, J. L. 1993. CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL 33431. 536 pp. US $312.50.
ASH 0 Fruit 54000.0 -0.07 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASH 0 Seed 58000.0 0.30 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
Acaricide 7 *
ACE-Inhibitor 5 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 9 *
Allelochemic 4 *
Allelopathic 8 *
Allergenic 18 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Amphiglycemic? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic 11 *
Ancylostomicide 1 *
Androgenic 2 *
Anemiagenic 2 *
Anesthetic 4 *
Angiogenic 1 *