Plant Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Buckwheat

How this plant is used

Food

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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
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHATIDYL-SERINE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHOLIPIDS	0	Seed	not available	34000.0	1.96	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	2820.0	3200.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Plant	not available	10800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIN	0	Seed	12000.0	24000.0	-0.07	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed	1980.0	2270.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	3715.0	4480.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDINS	34	Testa	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2-3'-O-GALLATE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2-3'-O-GALLATE	3	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B1-O-GALLATE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Seed	not available	5965.0	-1.06	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
PROTEASE-INHIBITOR-BWI-1	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	103000.0	129000.0	-0.93	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Testa	not available	134.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	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
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagen-Sparing	2	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMP-Inhibitor	1	Dullo, A. G., et al. 1999. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, 70: 1040-1045.
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Copper-Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator	2	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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deodorant	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.