Plant Lentinus edodes | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Shiitake

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
ORNITHINE	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SACCHAROPINE	0	Fruit	not available	44.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SACCHAROPINE-LACTAM	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAURINE	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRATHIANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAZOLIDINE-4-CARBOXYLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEATIN	2	Mycelium	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEATIN	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEATIN-RIBOSIDE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antimanic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimenopausal	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimigraine	1	Martindale's 29th
Antimorphinic	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiMS	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antinephritic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antioxidant	6	Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
Antioxidant?	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiparkinsonian	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antipellagric	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiphenylketonuric	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiprostaglandin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatitic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antipruritic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antipsychotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiretardation	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antirheumatic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiscoliotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisickling	2	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.