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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
BETA-SELINENE-EPOXIDE-I 0 Fruit 2.0 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Fruit 10.0 *
BUTYLATED-HYDROXY-TOLUENE 0 Strobilus *
BUTYLISOBUTYRATE 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CADALENE 0 Fruit 2.0 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant *
CALAMENENE 0 Fruit 2.0 -0.62 *
CALCIUM 28 Flower 1157.0 6220.0 0.12 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 6222.0 0.55 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Stem *
CANNABIDIOL 8 Leaf *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Flower 143220.0 770000.0 0.59 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 770000.0 -0.07 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CARYOLAN-1-OL 0 Fruit 5.0 *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(12)-6-DIEN-4-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(8)-13-DIEN-5-ALPHA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-3(8)-13-DIEN-5-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-3-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
CARYOPHYLLA-4(12)-8(13)-DIEN-5-BETA-OL 0 Essential Oil *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insecticide 7 *
Insectifuge 17 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 6 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 12 *
Irritant? 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 4 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.
Larvifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 6 *