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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
FAT 0 Flower 5394.0 29000.0 -0.45 *
FAT 0 Fruit 29000.0 -0.42 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FIBER 15 Fruit 72000.0 -0.66 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Flower 72000.0 -0.03 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Flower 342000.0 0.33 *
FORMALDEHYDE 12 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FRIEDELIN 2 Stem *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit 15000.0 20000.0 -0.62 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GALLOCATECHIN 0 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID 22 Fruit CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Fruit 60.0 0.07 *
GAMMA-CALOCORENE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Fruit 16.0 -0.74 *
GAMMA-EUDESMOL 0 Fruit 18.0 *
GAMMA-IONONE 0 Essential Oil *
GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID 20 Seed CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GAMMA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit 170.0 1.00 *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GERANIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Essential Oil List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Peristaltic 2 *
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger 1 *
Pesticide 68 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Pheromonal 1 *
Pheromone 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Pigment 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide 2 *
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 1 *
Prooxidant 6 *
Propecic 2 *