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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Stem Bark not available 40.0 -0.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
BIOTIN 4 Seed not available 0.0 -0.53 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BORON 4 Seed 0.5 12.0 -0.57 Betting on Boron, Unpublished draft by J. A. Duke on file at USDA, draft and papers relating to boron percentages. Includes Internat. Z. Vit. Ern. Forschung 43:1973 (boron).
BRASSICASTEROL 0 Seed 0.0 1.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 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.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed 1.0 6.0 -0.77 Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Testa 15.0 115.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 610.0 1100.0 -0.56 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAMPESTANOL 0 Seed 0.0 0.7 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed 20.0 85.0 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 110000.0 248000.0 -1.09 Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENE 0 Leaf not available 300.0 -0.59 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLORINE 7 Seed not available 230.0 -0.27 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Seed 10.0 28.0 -0.62 Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Testa 220.0 800.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTANOL 0 Seed 0.0 2.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL 1 Seed 0.0 12.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CLEROSTEROL 0 Seed 5.0 35.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Seed 3.0 15.0 0.02 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 3 Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Uricosuric 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Uteroactive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Uterorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vasoactive 1 Merck 11th Edition
Vasoconstrictor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator 11 Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor 1 Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vesicant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).