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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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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
EO 0 Shoot 700.0 1250.0 -0.84 *
EPICATECHIN 40 Plant *
FAT 0 Seed 328000.0 0.33 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FENCHOL 0 Plant 0.3 4.5 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant *
FLAVONOIDS 0 Flower 117100.0 1.78 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FLAVONOIDS 0 Shoot 70000.0 74000.0 2.00 *
GABA 22 Plant 700.0 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Plant *
GAMMA-CURCUMENE 0 Plant 0.5 9.0 *
GAMMA-EUDESMOL 0 Plant 1.5 27.0 -1.00 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Plant 1.5 27.0 -0.52 *
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Plant *
GERANIAL 13 Plant 0.4 6.3 -0.84 *
GERANIOL 35 Plant 4.0 72.0 -0.44 *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Plant 24.0 432.0 -0.05 *
GLUTAMINE 5 Plant *
GUAIOL 3 Plant 1.5 27.0 -1.00 *
GURJUNENE 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
HEXACOSAN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibradykinic 1 (View) *
Antibronchitic 2 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibronchoconstrictor 1 (View) *
Anticancer 11 (View) *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 (View) Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 (View) Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon) 3 (View) *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 (View) *
Anticancer (Liver) 3 (View) *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 (View) *
Anticapillary-Fragility 2 (View) Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 4 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 3 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 (View) Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic 6 (View) Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract 6 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 1 (View) *
Anticerebrotic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.