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Plant Humulus lupulus (Cannabaceae)

Common Names
Hops
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Flower 332.0 1782.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit not available 1782.0 -0.17 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASH 0 Flower 15996.0 86000.0 0.40 Duke, 1992 *
ASH 0 Fruit 70000.0 100000.0 1.12 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASPARAGINE 2 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASPARAGINIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ASTRAGALIN 7 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-ALANINE 2 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Flower 0.5 2.4 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit not available 2.4 -0.15 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit not available 520.0 -0.49 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Fruit not available 5.0 -0.71 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Fruit not available 60.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Fruit not available 35.0 -1.00 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Essential Oil 420000.0 580000.0 1.71 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Fruit not available 150.0 1.00 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Embryotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emetic 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 10 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 7 Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 3 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 23 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 23 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 2 Duke, 1992 *