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Common Names
California Poppy
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Subspecies
californica
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHELIRUBINE | 3 | Tissue Culture | not available | 11.5 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHOLESTROL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CODEINE | 14 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| COPTISINE | 3 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| COPTISINE | 3 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| COPTISINE | 3 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CORYDINE | 6 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CORYTUBERINE | 3 | Shoot | not available | 6.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CRYPTOCAVINE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CRYPTOPINE | 1 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROCHELERYTHRINE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROCHELILUTINE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROCHELIRUBINE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | 19.6 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROMACARPINE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | 27.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DIHYDROSANGUINARINE | 0 | 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. |
| DIHYDROSANGUINARINE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | 4.3 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| DL-CHEILANTHIFOLINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESCHOLAMIDINE | 0 | Shoot | not available | 20.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESCHOLIDINE | 0 | Root | 422.0 | 791.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ESCHOLINE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Angiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Anorexic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiacetylcholinesterase | 3 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Antiacne | 1 | Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh. |
| Antiadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiadrenergic | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Antiaggregant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiallergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialzheimeran | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiamnesic | 1 | Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh. |
| Antiandrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiangiogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiapoplectic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarrhythmic | 5 | Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp. |
| Antiarthritic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiasthmatic | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Antiatherogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiatherosclerotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibacillus | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antibacterial | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |