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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-EPICATECHIN	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Seed	not available	26.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN-3-O-GALLATE	7	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIHYDROXY-2-PIPERIDINOMETHANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
3,4-DIHYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE	0	Testa	not available	61.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Seed	not available	6880.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	459.0	-0.61	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
ARACHIDONIC-ACID	12	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Seed	not available	11910.0	-0.54	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
AROMADENDRIN-3-O-BETA-GALACTOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.34	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
ASH	0	Seed	19000.0	24000.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	not available	12000.0	-0.94	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Seed	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
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	20	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibradiquinic	1	Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	6	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.