Plant Eschscholzia californica (Papaveraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

California Poppy

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Subspecies

californica

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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
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 *

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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
Hepatoprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypertensive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	3	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypoglycemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	8	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insecticide	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Lachrymatory	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.