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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Hypericum perforatum (Clusiaceae)

Common Names
Common St. Johnswort, Hypericum, Klamath Weed, St. John's-wort, Goatweed
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
N-OCTANOL 0 Essential Oil Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
N-UNDECANE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
N-UNDECANE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil *
N-UNDECANE 0 Shoot *
NEO-ALLOOCIMENE 0 Plant 0.3 5.4 *
NERAL 4 Plant 0.4 6.3 -0.76 *
NEROL 10 Plant 1.0 18.0 -0.43 *
NERYL-ACETATE 5 Plant 1.0 18.0 -0.55 *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Leaf 0.0 1200.0 0.86 *
NONACOSANE 2 Plant *
NONANE 0 Plant 23.0 414.0 1.73 *
NOR-CYCLOPSEUDOHYPERICIN 0 Plant *
NOVOIMANIN 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NOVOIMANIN 0 Shoot 30000.0 40000.0 *
OCT-1-ENE 0 Plant 1.5 17.0 *
OCTACOSAN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
OPCS 25 Plant Gruenwald, J. et al. 1998. PDR for Herbal Medicine. 1st ed. Medical Economics Co., Montvale, NJ. 1244 pp. (abbreviated as PHR or Physicians Herbal Reference in my mind)
ORNITHINE 5 Plant *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
P-CYMENE 16 Plant 0.5 9.0 -0.42 *
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