Plant Helianthus annuus (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sunflower; Girasol

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
N-EICOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENEICOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HENTRIACONTANE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSANE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TETRACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIDEC-2-ONE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	45.0	48.0	0.15	Duke, 1992 *
NIVEUSIN-B	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIVEUSIN-C	2	Leaf	not available	114.0	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NUCLEIN	0	Seed	not available	5100.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
O-HYDROXYBENZOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Rizk, A.F.M. and Al-Nowaihi, A.S., The Phytochemistry of the Horticultural Plants of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar.

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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
Antimalarial	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antimange	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimanic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiMD	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	2	Martindale's 28th
Antimenopausal	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	5	Martindale's 28th
Antimite	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimitotic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimorphinic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antimorphinistic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.