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

Common Names

Shiitake

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Download these results as:

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
EMITANIN-B	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERITADENINE	0	Fruit	500.0	930.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC-ACID	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-GLUTAMIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-NICOTIANINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-TRANSFERASE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCAN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPENTENYL-ADENINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPENTENYL-ADENOSINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTHIONINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTINIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTINUS-ANTIBIOTIC-KS-2-A	0	Mycelium	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTINUS-EDODES-ALPHA-GLUCAN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTINUS-EDODES-ANTITUMOR-SUBSTANCE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTINUS-EDODES-BAGASSE-POLYSACCHARIDE-ANTIBIOTIC-C-1-2	0	Mycelium	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LENTINUS-EDODES-BETA-GLUCAN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

CSV

EXCEL

PDF

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
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatoprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	2	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	3	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypoglycemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Hypotensive	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Immunomodulator	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Insectifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Irritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Lipotropic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
Mitotic	1	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Monoamine-Precursor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).