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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Humulus lupulus (Cannabaceae)

Common Names
Hops
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ACETONE 3 Inflorescence *
ACYLPHLOROGLUCIDES 0 Fruit Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ADHULUPONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ADHUMULONE 2 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ADHUMULONE 2 Inflorescence *
ADHUMULONE 2 Plant *
ADHUMULONE 2 Strobilus *
ADLUPULONE 2 Fruit *
ADLUPULONE 2 Inflorescence *
ADLUPULONE 2 Plant *
ADLUPULONE 2 Strobilus *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE 0 Fruit 77.0 -0.68 *
ALLO-CYMENE 2 Essential Oil *
ALLOAROMADENDRENE-EPOXIDE 0 Fruit 12.0 *
ALPHA-ALANINE 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-AMINO-ADIPIC-ACID 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-CADINENE 0 Fruit 10.0 *
ALPHA-CADINOL 3 Fruit 15.0 *
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Fruit 15.0 -0.67 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihypercholesterolemic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic 2 *
Antihyperkeratotic 1 *
Antihyperkinetic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipidemic 3 Choi, J.S., Yokozawa,* T., and Oura, H. Antihyperlipidemic Effect Of Flavonoids From Prunus davidiana. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 218-224, 1991.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 10 *
Antihyperthyroid 2 *
Antihypoglycemic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiimpotence 3 Martindale's 28th
Antiinfarctal 1 Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 37 *
Antiinsomniac 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic 2 *
Antikeratitic 1 *