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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Elsholtzia nipponica (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Hsiang Ju
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-DEHYDROELSCHOLTZIAKETONE 0 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CITRAL 53 Plant Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
ELSCHOLTZIAKETONE 0 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
GERANIOL 35 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
LIMONENE 60 Plant Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
P-CYMENE 16 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PHENOL 26 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Acaricide 1 *
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.
Allelochemic 1 *
Allergenic 3 *
Analgesic 2 Martindale's 28th
Anesthetic 1 *
Anthelmintic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 2 *
Antiadenomic 1 *
Antiallergenic 1 *
Antiallergic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic 1 *
Antiasthmatic 1 *
Antibacillary 1 *
Antibacterial 5 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Anticancer 2 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 *
Anticariogenic 1 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Antiesophagitic 1 *