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

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Cardamom

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
CAMPHOR	41	Fruit	7.0	20.0	-0.87	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.
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	421000.0	778000.0	-0.03	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	685000.0	747000.0	0.89	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARDIOLIPIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Pericarp	not available	2663.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	4195.0	2.37	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	20.5	29.5	3.64	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-P-MENTH-2-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit	525.0	1500.0	not available	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.
CITRONELLAL	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CITRONELLOL	15	Fruit	14.0	40.0	2.19	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLOL	15	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	5000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Fruit	0.4	0.8	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	3.8	15.4	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Ubiquiot	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	2	HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricosuric	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Vasodilator	5	Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide	1	Wealth of India.
Vulnerary	4	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.