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Common Names
Black Walnut
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| STRONTIUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 7.1 | -0.61 | Furr, A.K., et al. 1979 |
| SUGARS | 0 | Pericarp | 6000.0 | 50000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SULFUR | 14 | Seed | not available | 2652.0 | 0.07 | Furr, A.K., et al. 1979 |
| SYRINGIC-ACID | 6 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Fruit | not available | 147000.0 | 0.51 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| TANNIN | 35 | Pericarp | 33600.0 | 280000.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANTALUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.11 | Furr, A.K., et al. 1979 |
| TETRADECANOIC-ACID | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TETRADECENOIC-ACID | 0 | Seed Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Fruit | not available | 2.0 | -0.43 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Seed | not available | 2.0 | -1.09 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMINE | 0 | Pericarp | 0.2 | 2.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| THIAMINE | 0 | Seed | not available | 2.0 | -0.58 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| THORIUM | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.4 | 1.57 | Furr, A.K., et al. 1979 |
| THREONINE | 4 | Seed | 7300.0 | 7630.0 | -0.11 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| THYMOL | 71 | Essential Oil | not available | 14000.0 | -1.03 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TIN | 4 | Fruit | not available | 12.0 | -0.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TIN | 4 | Pericarp | 1.4 | 12.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Contraceptive | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Copper-Antagonist | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
| Copper-Chelator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cosmetic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Counterirritant | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| COX-1-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COX-2-Inhibitor | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Culicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cytoprotective | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Cytotoxic | 5 | Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359. |
| Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Dentifrice | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Deodorant | 2 | Martindale's 28th |
| Depressant | 1 | Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp. |
| Dermatitigenic | 4 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Detoxicant | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Detoxicant (Alcohol) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Diaphoretic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |