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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
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Plant *
CARYOPHYLLENE-EPOXIDE 6 Fruit 24.0 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Essential Oil *
CATECHIN 43 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CELLULOSE 1 Stem CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CEROTIC-ACID 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CHOLINE 20 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CHROMIUM 24 Flower 0.1 0.7 -1.07 *
CHROMIUM 24 Fruit 0.7 -0.41 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CITRAL 53 Essential Oil *
CITRAL 53 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
COBALT 2 Flower 0.5 2.4 -0.42 *
COBALT 2 Fruit 2.4 -0.24 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
COHUMULONE 2 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
COHUMULONE 2 Inflorescence *
COHUMULONE 2 Plant *
COHUMULONE 2 Strobilus *
COLUPDOX 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
COLUPOX 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Embryotoxic 1 *
Emetic 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 *
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 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 7 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
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 *