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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-CORACALENE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Plant not available 15.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-EUDESMOL 0 Fruit not available 65.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-GUAIENE 0 Fruit not available 16.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Essential Oil not available 400000.0 3.14 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit not available 35.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-SELINENE 3 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Strobilus not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-YLANGENE 0 Fruit not available 5.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM 5 Flower 0.9 4.7 -1.64 Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit not available 4.7 -0.22 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
AMMONIA 0 Flower not available 10660.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA 0 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA(NH3) 0 Flower not available 10660.0 -0.03 Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE 14 Fruit not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AROMADENDRINE 0 Fruit not available 98.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leucocytogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 12 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.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer 1 Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator 3 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper) 3 Duke, 1992 *
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
MMP-9-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Molluscicide 1 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.