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
QUERCETIN	176	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Testa	not available	25.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Leaf	not available	28300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	1.7	1.8	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	40000.0	63700.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	11600.0	63700.0	2.95	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Petiole	505.0	975.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	1000.0	68300.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Seed	87.0	511.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Stem	600.0	50600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Testa	not available	43.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLALDEHYDE	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONARETIN	0	Cotyledon	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.
SELENIUM	60	Seed	not available	0.2	-0.26	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
SERINE	1	Seed	not available	7110.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID	14	Hypocotyl	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICIC-ACID	1	Plant	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.

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	6	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant	3	Merck 11th Edition
Juvabional	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	7	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.