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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
NIACIN 39 Seed 6.0 31.0 -0.36 *
NICOTINE 21 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 36000.0 210300.0 0.75 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Seed 0.5 3.5 -0.53 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Testa 160.0 600.0 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 12000.0 49070.0 0.31 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed 1610.0 1670.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Seed 3.0 10.0 -0.71 *
PEROXIDASE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 6280.0 6520.0 -0.60 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 2800.0 5100.0 -0.07 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTATE 0 Seed 7600.0 9930.0 -0.32 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed 1080.0 1120.0 -0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PLUMBAGIN 42 Fruit Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 4500.0 6870.0 -0.50 *
PROLINE 0 Seed 5530.0 5740.0 -1.10 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Seed 137000.0 204000.0 -0.27 *
PUFA 4 Seed 391250.0 406070.0 2.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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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 *
Termiticide 1 *
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 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 *
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 *
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 *