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
TERPINEN-1-EN-4-OL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINYL-ACETATE	5	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.
THIAMIN	31	Seed	22.0	24.0	4.16	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Seed	9280.0	9805.0	0.37	Duke, 1992 *
TIGITANIN-A	0	Leaf	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.
TOCOPHEROL	93	Seed	not available	34000.0	2.64	Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29.
TRACHYLOBAN-19-OIC-ACID	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRACHYLOBAN-19-OIC-ACID-THUJANOL-ESTER	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-5,6-LUTEIN-EPOXIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-ABSCISIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMIC-ACID	0	Seed	500.0	700.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	3480.0	15900.0	4.29	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	6660.0	7035.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
URONIC-ACID	0	Pericarp	65000.0	77600.0	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.
VALINE	3	Seed	13150.0	50000.0	4.68	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Root	not available	0.9	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	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.
VERBENONE	5	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Flower	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
Antibacillus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	32	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	4	Martindale's 28th
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	12	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	3	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).