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

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
COBALT	2	Seed	not available	0.3	-0.19	Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
COPPER	12	Seed	10.0	20.0	0.47	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	4680.0	4895.0	1.21	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
DECA-2-4-DIEN-1-AL	0	Essential Oil	not available	12000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYLBENZENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EICOSADIENOIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EICOSENOIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Shoot	not available	35.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYLBENZENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	41000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYLBENZENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUROPIUM	0	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.78	Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
FAT	0	Fruit	not available	52000.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Pericarp	6240.0	52000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	563000.0	612000.0	1.83	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	not available	162000.0	0.19	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Pericarp	not available	162000.0	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER	15	Seed	17000.0	71215.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antianorectic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	26	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	2	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer	8	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	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	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.