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
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 *

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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
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Respiraparalytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Rubefacient	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	9	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Soap	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	4	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sprout-Inhibitor	1	Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Sunscreen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.