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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pediculicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery	13	Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	29	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer	1	Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Piscicide	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	2	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	1	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.