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
BORNEOL	35	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSINOLIDE	3	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BREIN	0	Shoot	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.
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Pollen Or Spore	not available	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	1600.0	1800.0	0.95	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	917.0	1225.0	-0.54	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CALENDULADIOL	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.
CAMPEST-7-EN-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Seed	750.0	770.0	0.97	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPHENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOLENAL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	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.
CAPRIC-ACID	3	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.
CAPROIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	133000.0	213000.0	-1.23	Duke, 1992 *
CASTASTERONE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Seed	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
Hemolytic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	5	Martindale's 29th
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	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.
Hepatoprotective	17	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	14	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	2	Martindale's 29th
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic	2	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.