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
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	not available	3430.0	-0.20	Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	120.0	0.17	Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
METHYL-DECANOATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-DODECANOATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-HEXADECANOATE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-LAURYL-SULFIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
METHYL-N-NONYL-KETONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-N-NONYL-KETONE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-N-UNDECYL-KETONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-NONYL-KETONE	3	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-NONYL-KETONE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
MYRCENE	22	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DECYLALDEHYDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DODECYLALDEHYDE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NOR-CEPHARADIONE-B	0	Shoot	not available	8.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTAN-1-AL	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Root	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
Hypothermic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	2	Martindale's 29th
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	6	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	16	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	5	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinogenic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	14	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant?	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Juvabional	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	3	Berenbaum, M. R., The natives knew, Chemtech, (May), 1990, 275-279.