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Plant Juglans regia (Juglandaceae)

Common Names
English 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
JUGLONE 16 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
JUGLONE 16 Seed 60.0 205.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
JUGLONE 16 Testa 1980.0 7630.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf 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.
KAEMPFEROL-3-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf 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.
KILOCALORIES 0 Seed 6420.0 6665.0 1.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LECITHIN 20 Seed not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LEUCINE 2 Seed 9920.0 10295.0 -0.65 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Seed 228000.0 532760.0 3.65 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Seed 8000.0 112160.0 1.38 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LYSINE 4 Seed 3880.0 4025.0 -1.09 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Seed 1310.0 1945.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 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.
MANGANESE 14 Seed 27.0 32.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MELATONIN 23 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MESO-INOSITOL 0 Leaf not available 3000.0 not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
METHIONINE 15 Seed 2800.0 2905.0 -0.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MUFA 13 Seed 141750.0 147720.0 0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed 1890.0 1960.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Leaf not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Sweetener 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Teratogenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyrotropic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 3 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Tranquilizer 3 Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 2 Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *