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
Antitussive	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	19	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiurethrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuricosuric	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.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antivaricose	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	19	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivulvitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antixerotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiyeast	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.