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Plant Geranium thunbergii (Geraniaceae)

Common Names
Gennoshiouko; Oriental Geranium
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BREVIFOLIN 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Plant not available 16900.0 0.35 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Plant not available 23.0 0.99 Duke, 1992 *
CORILAGIN 13 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ELAEOCARPUSIN 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGITANNIN 8 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ETHER-CORILAGIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GERANIIN 21 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Plant not available 400.0 -0.27 Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFERITRIN 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant not available 1660.0 -0.75 Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Plant not available 49.0 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
MONORHAMNOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NONAMETHYL-CORILAGIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTAGALLOYL-GLUCOSE 8 Tissue Culture not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLANTHUSIN-D 0 Tissue Culture 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
Antimetastatic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMRSA 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 11 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimyocarditic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinephrolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuropathic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineurotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antinitrosaminic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antinyctalopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoporotic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiototic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant 13 Duke, 1992 *
Antipancreatitic 1 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.