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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
3-METHYLBUTYLISOBUTYRATE 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
4,5-EPITHIOCARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil *
4,5-EPITHIOCARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
4-(4-METHYL-PENT-3-ENYL)1,2-DITHIACYCLOHEX-4-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
4-(4-METHYL-PENT-3-ENYL)3,6-DIHYDRO-1,2-DITHIINE 0 Fruit *
4-DEOXYCOHUMULONE 0 Plant *
4-DEOXYHUMULONE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
4-DEOXYHUMULONE 0 Inflorescence *
4-DEOXYHUMULONE 0 Plant *
5-(4-METHYL-5-PENT-3-ENYL)1,2,3-TRITHIACYCLOHEPT-5-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
5-(4-METHYL-PENT-3-ENYL)-1,2,3-TRITHIACYCLOHEPT-5-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
5-ALPHA-ERGOSTAN-3-ONE 0 Stem *
5-ALPHA-STIGMAST22-EN-3-ONE 0 Stem *
5-ALPHA-STIGMASTAN-3-ONE 0 Stem *
6-(4-METHYL-PENT-3-ENYL)-1,2,3,4-TETRATHIACYCLOOCT-6-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
6-(4-METHYL-PENT-3-ENYL)1,2,3,4-TETRATHIACYCLOCT-6-ENE 0 Essential Oil *
6-ISO-PENTENYL-NARINGENIN 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap 2375.0 *
8,9-EPI-THIOHUMULENE 0 Essential Oil *
ACETONE 3 Flower *
ACETONE 3 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Liver) 3 *
Antitumor (Lung) 7 *
Antitumor (Ovary) 2 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 3 *
Antitumor (Prostate) 5 *
Antitumor (Skin) 5 *
Antitumor (Stomach) 4 *
Antitumor-Promoter 9 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitumor-Promoter? 1 *
Antitussive 1 *
Antiulcer 22 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiulcerogenic 2 *
Antiuremic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo 1 *
Antiviral 28 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic 1 Martindale's 29th