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
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEPHARANONE-B	0	Shoot	not available	8.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-N-(4-HYDROXYSTYRYL)-BENZAMIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-N-(4-HYDROXYSTYRYL)-BENZAMIDE	0	Shoot	not available	1.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Plant	not available	26.0	1.33	Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
DECAN-1-AL	1	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECAN-1-AL	1	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOIC-ACID	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOIC-ACID	3	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DECANOYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECAN-1-AL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECAN-1-AL	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECANAL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	not available	5000.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORIDE	3	Shoot	not available	11.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL	35	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
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	7	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	9	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	5	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	10	Duke, 1992 *