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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
ALPHA-CORACALENE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Plant 15.0 -0.51 *
ALPHA-EUDESMOL 0 Fruit 65.0 *
ALPHA-GUAIENE 0 Fruit 16.0 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil 400000.0 3.14 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit 35.0 -0.70 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Strobilus *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Fruit 5.0 -0.70 *
ALUMINUM 5 Flower 0.9 4.7 -1.64 *
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 4.7 -0.22 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
AMMONIA 0 Flower 10660.0 *
AMMONIA 0 Inflorescence *
AMMONIA(NH3) 0 Flower 10660.0 -0.03 *
ARGININE 14 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AROMADENDRINE 0 Fruit 98.0 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cardioprotective 12 *
Cardiotonic 6 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Cardiovascular 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Carminative 2 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-3-Inducer 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 2 *
Cerebrotonic 1 *
Chelator 1 *
Chemopreventive 10 *
Cholagogue 3 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 8 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Choline-Sparing 2 Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Cholinergic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cicatrizant 1 *
Circulotonic 2 *
Clastogenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.