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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GERANIOL 35 Essential Oil *
GERANIOL 35 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GERANYL-ISOBUTYRATE 0 Essential Oil *
GERANYL-PROPIONATE 2 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GERMACRATRIENE 0 Essential Oil *
GERMACRENE-B 0 Fruit 105.0 -1.00 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Fruit 15.0 -1.00 *
GLOBULOL 0 Fruit 27.0 -1.00 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit 15000.0 20000.0 -0.68 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
HEDERAGENIN 9 Stem *
HELUPONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
HEPTYLISOBUTYRATE 1 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HEPTYLPROPIONATE 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HEXYL-ISOBUTYRATE 0 Plant *
HEXYLPROPIONATE 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
HULUPINIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
HULUPONE 0 Fruit 21000.0 39000.0 *
HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antithrombic 2 *
Antithrombogenic 2 *
Antithromboxane 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyroid 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 1 *
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic 4 Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitubercular 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antitumor 26 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Bladder) 2 *
Antitumor (brain) 2 *
Antitumor (Breast) 7 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 2 *
Antitumor (CNS) 1 *
Antitumor (Colon) 9 *
Antitumor (Forestomach) 2 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 *
Antitumor (Kidney) 1 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.