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
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.