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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
TIN 4 Flower 4.0 22.0 0.99 *
TIN 4 Fruit 22.0 -0.29 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
TRANS-BETA-FARNESENE 2 Tissue Culture *
TRANS-ISOHUMULONE 0 Flower *
TRICYCLO-DEHYDRO-HUMULONE 0 Fruit 3000.0 *
TRICYCLODEHYDROISOHUMULONE 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
TRICYCLOISOHUMULONE 0 Inflorescence *
TRIMETHYLAMINE 1 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TYROSINE 8 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
UNDECAN-2-AL 0 Essential Oil *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Stem *
VALINE 3 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VIRIDIFLORENE 0 Fruit 60.0 *
VIRIDIFLOROL 1 Fruit 16.0 *
WATER 0 Flower 814000.0 0.01 *
WATER 0 Fruit 60000.0 120000.0 -2.83 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
XANTHOHUMOL 4 Fruit 15.0 *
XANTHOHUMOL 4 Resin, Exudate, Sap 78750.0 *
XANTHOHUMOL 4 Strobilus 300.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor 1 Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima.
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 11 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 2 *
Deodorant 2 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 3 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic 2 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Diuretic 17 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 1 *
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor 3 *