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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Juglans regia (Juglandaceae)

Common Names
English Walnut
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TANNIN 35 Fruit 122000.0 0.27 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TANNIN 35 Leaf 90000.0 110000.0 -0.01 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
THIAMIN 31 Seed 3.0 5.0 -0.38 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THREONINE 4 Seed 4480.0 4650.0 -0.78 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TOCOPHEROLS 0 Seed 25.0 4410.0 2.83 *
TRISJUGLONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 1890.0 1960.0 -0.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYROSINE 8 Seed 4390.0 4555.0 -0.74 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Seed 7230.0 7505.0 -0.56 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VIT-B-6 0 Seed 4.0 11.0 2.53 *
WATER 0 Seed 25000.0 42000.0 -0.71 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
ZINC 77 Seed 25.0 30.0 -0.43 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 8 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 11 *
GABA-nergic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 3 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 *
Gram(-)icide 1 *
Hematopoietic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 *
Hemostat 4 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.