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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antifeedant	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	2	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *