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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Buckwheat
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SODIUM 1 Seed 0.0 -0.72 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
STARCH 5 Seed 670000.0 1.46 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Pollen Or Spore *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 460.0 -0.56 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed 80.0 92.0 -0.41 *
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Testa *
TAXIFOLIN-3-O-XYLOSIDE 0 Seed *
THIAMIN 31 Seed 2.7 9.0 0.58 *
THREONINE 4 Seed 5850.0 -0.51 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
TOCOPHEROL 93 Seed 42.0 -0.40 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
TRIDECAN-1-OIC-ACID 0 Pollen Or Spore *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 2065.0 -0.43 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
TYROSINE 8 Seed 2750.0 -1.16 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
VALINE 3 Seed 8140.0 -0.48 Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Testa *
VITEXIN 18 Cotyledon List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VITEXIN 18 Testa *
WATER 0 Seed 110000.0 128000.0 -0.38 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Pancreatogenic 1 *
Paralytic 1 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 25 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photoactive 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.
Phytoalexin 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pigment 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Poultice 1 Martindale's 29th
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).