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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Houttuynia cordata (Saururaceae)

Common Names
Fishwort; Dokudami; Yu Xing Cao
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GERANIOL 35 Shoot Essent. Oil *
HUMULENE 2 Shoot Essent. Oil *
HYPERIN 14 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
HYPEROSIDE 30 Leaf *
HYPEROSIDE 30 Root *
HYPEROSIDE 30 Shoot 2900.0 -1.00 *
IRON 6 Plant 500.0 -0.15 Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Leaf *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Plant Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Shoot 700.0 1.42 *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Essential Oil *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Shoot Essent. Oil *
LAURIC-ALDEHYDE 0 Plant *
LAURYL-ALDEHYDE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil *
LIMONENE 60 Shoot Essent. Oil *
LINALOOL 53 Essential Oil *
LINALOOL 53 Shoot Essent. Oil *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Root *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Shoot *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Shoot *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Inhibitor 1 Schussler, M., Fricke, U., Nikolov, N., and Holzl, J. 1991. Comparison of the Flavonoids Occurring in Crataegus species and Inhibition of 3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Phosphodiesterase. Plant Medica 57: Suppl Issue 2. p.A-133.
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive 16 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 10 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat 2 *
Capillarifortificant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillarigenic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective 2 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 3 Science News, 146: 421.
Cardioprotective 4 *
Cardiotonic 1 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Carminative 3 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 2 *
Chemopreventive 4 *
Cholagogue 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 5 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *