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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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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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-TERPINENE 13 Plant 1.0 18.0 -0.47 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Plant 3.0 54.0 -0.44 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Plant 0.1 1.8 -0.69 *
AMENTOFLAVONE 18 Flower 100.0 500.0 *
AMENTOFLAVONE 18 Shoot *
AR-CURCUMENE 3 Plant 0.5 9.0 -0.56 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Plant 1300.0 -0.29 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 395.0 -0.10 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Shoot 16.5 -0.37 *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Shoot *
BETA-BOURBONENE 0 Plant 0.3 4.5 -0.49 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Shoot 12.1 -0.67 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Plant 0.3 4.5 -0.46 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Plant 2.0 32.0 -1.40 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant 335.0 6055.0 6.10 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Shoot *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Plant 1.5 27.0 -0.50 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 12 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 5 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.
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 5 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lipotropic 1 *
Lipoxygenase-1-Inhibitor 1 *
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 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor 2 *
MAO-Inhibitor 6 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.
MAPK-Inhibitor 1 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *
Memorigenic 1 *