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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Lentinus edodes

Common Names
Shiitake
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
1-(METHYL-THIO)-DIMETHYL-DISULFIDE 0 Fruit *
1-2-3-5-6-8-HEXATHIONANE 0 Fruit *
1-2-3-5-TETRATHIANE 0 Fruit *
1-2-4-5-7-PENTATHIOCANE 0 Fruit *
1-2-4-5-TETRATHIANE 0 Fruit *
1-2-4-6-TETRATHIEPANE 0 Fruit *
1-2-4-7-9-10-HEXATHIADODECANE 0 Fruit *
1-2-4-TRITHIOLANE 0 Fruit *
1-3-5-TRITHIANE 0 Fruit *
1-3-DITHIETANE 0 Fruit *
2-3-5-6-TETRATHIAHEPTANE 0 Fruit *
5'-CYCLIC-AMP 0 Fruit 400.0 690.0 *
ALANINE 3 Fruit *
ALLOISOLEUCINE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-AMINO-BUTYRIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
AMINO-ACIDS 0 Fruit *
ARGININE 14 Fruit *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit *
BIS-((METHYL-SULFONYL)-METHYL)-DISULFIDE 0 Fruit 53.6 *
CARBON-DISULFIDE 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiepileptic 1 *
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antigastritic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antigranular 1 *
Antihemolytic 1 *
Antihepatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiherpetic 1 *
Antihistaminic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihomocystinuric 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihyperammonemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antihypertensive 3 *
Antiimpotence 1 *
Antiinfertility 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 2 *
Antiinsomniac 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinsomnic 1 *
Antilethargic 1 *
Antileukotriene-D4 2 *
Antilithic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).