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

Common Names
California Poppy
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Subspecies
californica

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(-)-ALPHA-CANADINE 0 Root 129.0 *
(-)-ALPHA-CANADINE-METHOHYDROXIDE 0 Root 129.0 *
(-)-CARYACHINE 0 Shoot *
(-)-NORARGEMONINE 0 Root 50.0 *
10-HYDROXYCHELERYTHRINE 0 Tissue Culture 4.0 *
10-HYDROXYSANGUINARINE 0 Tissue Culture 50.5 *
12-HYDROXYCHELIRUBINE 0 Tissue Culture 137.0 *
2',4'-DIHYDROXY-7-METHOXYISOFLAVONE 0 Plant *
2'-METHOXYFORMONONETIN 0 Plant *
ALKALOIDS 0 Plant 600.0 2900.0 -0.36 *
ALKALOIDS 0 Root 27000.0 0.40 *
ALLOCRYPTOPINE 5 Plant *
ALLOCRYPTOPINE 5 Root *
ALLOCRYPTOPINE 5 Seed *
ALLOCRYPTOPINE 5 Shoot 260.0 *
ALPHA-ALLOCRYPTOPINE 3 Root *
ALPHA-CANADINE 0 Plant *
ALPHA-HOMOCHELIDONINE 0 Plant *
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Flower Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BERBERINE 130 Shoot List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibiotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antibradykinic 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Anticancer 3 *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticariogenic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticataract 2 *
Antichlamydial 1 *
Anticholecystitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticholera 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticholinergic 1 Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Anticholinesterase 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Anticirrhotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticlastogen 1 *
Anticonjunctivitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticonvulsant 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticoryzic 1 *
AntiCVI 1 *