Plant Houttuynia cordata (Saururaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Fishwort; Dokudami; Yu Xing Cao

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
ARISTOLACTAM-A-II	0	Shoot	not available	5.7	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-MYRCENE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-PINENE	13	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL-ACETATE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	770.0	-1.37	Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
CAMPHENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAMPHENE	9	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRIC-ACID	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRIC-ALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CAPRYLALDEHYDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLALDEHYDE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Essential Oil	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
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiosteoporotic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiosteosclerotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiotitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiototic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant	16	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antioxidant (LDL)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiperiodontal	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiperiodontic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperiodontitic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperistaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipermeability	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant	3	Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991.
Antipharyngitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque	6	Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21
Antiplasmodial	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplatelet	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Duke, 1992 *