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Plant Juglans nigra (Juglandaceae)

Common Names
Black Walnut
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
1,2,3-TRIMETHYL-BENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 9000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1,2,4-TRIMETHYL-BENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 3000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1,3-DIMETHYL-BENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 3000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1,4-NAPHTHOQUINONE 3 Fruit not available 8.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1,4-NAPHTHOQUINONE 3 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-2-5-TRIMETHYLBENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 4000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1-2-DIMETHYLBENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 4000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1-2-DIMETHYLBENZENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
1-4-DIMETHYLBENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 3000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
1-METHYLNAPHTHALENE 0 Essential Oil not available 12000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-2-DIMETHYLDECAN-1-OL 0 Essential Oil not available 13000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-6-10-TRIMETHYLDODECANE 0 Essential Oil not available 6000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-ACETYL-1-HYDROXY-4-METHYL-BENZENE 0 Essential Oil not available 15000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXY-4-METHOXY-BENZALDEHYDE 0 Essential Oil not available 24000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYLHEPTAN-2-THIOL 0 Essential Oil not available 43000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYLHEPTAN-2-THIOL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL 0 Essential Oil not available 16000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
3-ETHYL-2-METHYLHEPTA-1,3-DIENE 0 Essential Oil not available 3000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYLTRIDECANE 0 Essential Oil not available 8000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypotriglyceridemic 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
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 9 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 11 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 5 Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 6 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 12 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 2 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Irritant 6 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 2 Duke, 1992 *