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
Antistress	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	1	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Antitinnitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	4	Martindale's 29th
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	8	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Carcinogenic	2	Science News, 146: 421.
Cardiac	1	Martindale's 29th
Cardiovascular	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Choleretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Inhibitor	1	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry