An official website of the United States government.
Common Names
Cotton
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Oviposition-Stimulant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Oxytocic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P450-2B1-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P450-Inducer | 1 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| P450-Inhibitor | 1 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| PAF-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Paralytic | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Parasympathomimetic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 10 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Peroxynitrite-Scavenger | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pesticide | 29 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PGE2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pheromone | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pigment | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Plasmodicide | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Progesteronigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |