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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Elettaria cardamomum (Zingiberaceae)

Common Names
Cardamom
How this plant is used
Food

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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
NERYL-ACETATE 5 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.
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Seed Essent. Oil *
NERYLIC-ACID 0 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
NIACIN 39 Seed 11.0 12.0 -0.92 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
OCTAN-1-OL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 8500.0 9240.0 -0.41 Revised USDA data received 1993.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 41942.0 62600.0 -0.46 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Oil *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit 19.0 -0.68 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf *
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit 130.0 28000.0 3.13 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.
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit Essent. Oil 5000.0 -1.00 *
P-CYMENE 16 Root Essent. Oil 7000.0 -0.58 *
P-CYMENE 16 Seed Essent. Oil *
P-MENTH-CIS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
P-MENTH-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Seed Essent. Oil *
P-MENTHENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 840.0 6195.0 -0.27 Revised USDA data received 1993.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 5828.0 8400.0 -0.53 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed Oil *
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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 *
Vermicide 1 *
Vermifuge 1 *
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 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.