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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
DIMETHYL-AMINE 2 Inflorescence 1.4 *
DIMETHYLVINYLCARBINOL 1 Flower *
DIPENTENE 7 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
EO 0 Flower 2000.0 10000.0 -0.09 *
EO 0 Fruit 3000.0 10000.0 -0.63 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
EO 0 Seed 10000.0 30000.0 -0.17 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
EPICATECHIN 40 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
EPICUBENOL 0 Fruit 13.0 -1.00 *
EPIGLOBULOL 0 Fruit 5.0 *
ESTRADIOL 3 Fruit *
ESTRONE 8 Fruit *
ETHYL-AMINE 0 Flower 5.2 *
ETHYL-AMINE 0 Inflorescence 5.2 *
ETHYL-HEPTANOATE 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ETHYL-METHYL-AMINE 0 Flower 3.7 *
ETHYL-METHYL-AMINE 0 Inflorescence 3.7 *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil *
FARNESENE 2 Essential Oil *
FARNESOL 17 Essential Oil *
FARNESOL 17 Fruit 17.0 -0.69 *
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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 *