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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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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
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 4760.0 0.47 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PIPERIDINE 10 Flower 2.5 *
PIPERIDINE 10 Inflorescence 2.5 *
POSTHUMULONE 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
POSTHUMULONE 0 Inflorescence *
POTASSIUM 14 Flower 4371.0 23500.0 0.43 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 23500.0 0.49 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PREHUMULONE 0 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PREHUMULONE 0 Inflorescence *
PRELUPULONE 0 Fruit *
PRELUPULONE 0 Inflorescence *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1 1 Fruit *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2 1 Fruit *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3 2 Fruit *
PROCYANIDIN-B-4 4 Fruit *
PROCYANIDINS 27 Fruit *
PRODELPHINIDIN-B-3 0 Fruit *
PROLINE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROTEIN 0 Flower 21390.0 115000.0 -0.32 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 115000.0 240000.0 1.75 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
CNS-Depressant 7 Martindale's 29th
CNS-Inhibitor 2 *
CNS-Stimulant 2 *
Co-carcinogenic 1 *
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Coleoptophile 2 *
Collagen-Sparing 2 *
Collagenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Collagenic 2 *
Collyrium 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COMP-Inhibitor 3 Dullo, A. G., et al. 1999. Efficacy of a green tea extract rich in catechin polyphenols and caffeine in increasing 24-h energy expenditure and fat oxidation in humans. Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, 70: 1040-1045.
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 2 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 4 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 9 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 1 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 7 *