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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
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Estrogenic 1 *
Expectorant 3 *
FLavor 5 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 4 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 1 *
Glaucomagenic 1 *
Glutathionigenic 1 *
GST-Inducer 1 *
Hemolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Herbicide 4 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic 1 *
Immunomodulator 1 *
Insecticide 1 *
Insectifuge 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 1 Merck 11th Edition
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 *
Irritant 2 *
Laxative 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.