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
OLEIC-ACID	18	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOL	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPEROLACTAM-A	0	Shoot	not available	4.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	not available	54300.0	2.27	Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
POTASSIUM-SULFATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-L-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Shoot	not available	8600.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
REYNOUTRIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	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.