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
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 *