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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Fragaria spp (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Strawberry
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
DIHYDROTRIMETHYLNAPHTHALENE 0 Leaf *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Fruit 430.0 8430.0 1.73 *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Leaf 8080.0 32300.0 1.41 *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Seed 1370.0 21650.0 1.00 *
ELLAGITANNIN 8 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
EO 0 Plant *
FAT 0 Fruit 2350.0 59893.0 -0.18 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAT 0 Seed 190000.0 -0.40 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 5300.0 181000.0 0.37 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FLAVONOIDS 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
FLUORINE 0 Fruit 0.0 0.9 -0.45 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
FOLACIN 15 Fruit 0.1 0.2 -0.75 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FURFURAL 6 Leaf *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Fruit 80.0 121.0 -1.07 Jim Duke's personal files.
GALLOCATECHIN 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID 22 Plant *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Fruit 900.0 10676.0 -0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTAMINE 5 Plant *
GLYCINE 12 Fruit 240.0 2847.0 -0.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Cosmetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
COX-1-Inhibitor 2 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 5 Newmark, T. M. and Schulick, P. 2000. Herbal Cox-2 Inhibition - Nature's Challenge to Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease. Hohm Press, Prescott AZ.
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 1 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 6 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 1 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 8 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 1 *
Dentifrice 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
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 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 3 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *