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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
IRON 6 Flower *
IRON 6 Fruit Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ISOADHUMULONE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOCOHUMULONE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOHUMULONE 2 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOLEUCINE 3 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOMALTOSE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOPARAFFIN 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOPENTENYL-NARANGENIN 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap 2375.0 *
ISOPENTYL-AMINE 0 Flower 0.4 *
ISOPENTYL-AMINE 0 Inflorescence 0.4 *
ISOPREHUMULONE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOPRENE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ISOVALERIC-ACID 5 Essential Oil Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
ISOXANTHOHUMOL 6 Fruit 1838.0 *
ISOXANTHOHUMOL 6 Resin, Exudate, Sap 42500.0 *
JUNIPER-CAMPHOR 0 Fruit 13.0 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-RUTINOSIDE 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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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.