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Common Names
Fishwort; Dokudami; Yu Xing Cao
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GERANIOL | 35 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HUMULENE | 2 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HYPERIN | 14 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| HYPEROSIDE | 30 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HYPEROSIDE | 30 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HYPEROSIDE | 30 | Shoot | not available | 2900.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRON | 6 | Plant | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOQUERCITRIN | 22 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books) |
| ISOQUERCITRIN | 22 | Shoot | not available | 700.0 | 1.42 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ACID | 7 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ACID | 7 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ALDEHYDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURYL-ALDEHYDE | 0 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LIMONENE | 60 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINALOOL | 53 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINALOOL | 53 | Shoot Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | 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 * |