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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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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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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 *