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Plant Elsholtzia nipponica (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Hsiang Ju
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-DEHYDROELSCHOLTZIAKETONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CITRAL 53 Plant not available not available not available Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
ELSCHOLTZIAKETONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
GERANIOL 35 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
LIMONENE 60 Plant not available not available not available Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
P-CYMENE 16 Plant not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PHENOL 26 Plant not available not available not available 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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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide 3 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NF-kB-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ozone-Scavenger 1 Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery 3 Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 6 Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Prostatitigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Rodenticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sedative 4 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Teratogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Transdermal 1 Duke, 1992 *