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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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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
Peristaltic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Peroxynitrite-Scavenger 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 68 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Pheromonal 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 6 Duke, 1992 *
Propecic 2 Duke, 1992 *