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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Juglans nigra (Juglandaceae)

Common Names
Black Walnut
How this plant is used
Food
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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
METHIONINE 15 Seed 4730.0 4945.0 0.16 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-3-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOATE 0 Essential Oil 30000.0 *
METHYLBENZENE 0 Essential Oil 5000.0 *
METHYLBENZENE 0 Fruit *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Seed 0.4 -0.78 Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
MUFA 13 Seed 127270.0 133070.0 0.17 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRICETIN 34 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MYRICETIN 34 Leaf *
MYRICITRIN 13 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
N-DODECANE 0 Essential Oil 5000.0 *
N-HEXADECANE 0 Essential Oil 73000.0 *
N-TETRADECANE 0 Essential Oil 27000.0 *
N-TRIDECANE 0 Essential Oil 26000.0 *
N-UNDECANE 0 Essential Oil 8000.0 *
NAPHTHALEN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil 27000.0 *
NAPHTHALENE 1 Essential Oil 15000.0 1.00 *
NEOSAKURNIN 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NIACIN 39 Fruit *
NIACIN 39 Pericarp 0.8 7.0 *
NIACIN 39 Seed 7.0 -1.07 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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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 *
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 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 4 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 6 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
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 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic 1 *