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
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	2	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterotoxic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	8	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor	20	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	14	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant	1	Martindale's 29th
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.