Plant Gossypium sp (Malvaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cotton

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
(-)-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	75100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-CATECHIN	0	Stem	not available	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN	21	Stem	not available	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-TRANS-ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	3300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	25400.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM-OXIDE	0	Seed	100.0	600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	960.0	2690.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	34100.0	47000.0	-0.03	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOTIN	4	Seed	not available	0.3	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLENEOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE	4	Essential Oil	not available	2400.0	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXIDE	0	Seed	2400.0	4400.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	500000.0	555000.0	0.13	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
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive (Male)	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	3	Newmark, T. M. and Schulick, P. 2000. Herbal Cox-2 Inhibition - Nature's Challenge to Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease. Hohm Press, Prescott AZ.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Dermal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	4	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Dopaminergic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	1	Wealth of India.