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
BETA-HOMOCHELIDONINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISNORARGEMONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISNORARGEMONINE	0	Root	not available	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BISNORARGEMONINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALIFORNIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALIFORNIDINE	0	Root	42.0	46.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALIFORNIDINE	0	Shoot	not available	1900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALIFORNINE	0	Shoot	not available	130.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Tissue Culture	4.0	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELILUTINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELILUTINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELILUTINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIRUBINE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIRUBINE	3	Shoot	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
Cataleptic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Catatonic	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.
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cholekinetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	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.
CNS-Depressant	4	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Suppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collyrium	1	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Convulsant	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Curaroid	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	1	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.