Plant Lepidium meyenii (Brassicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Maca; Peruvian Ginseng

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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
LYSINE	4	Root	not available	5450.0	1.57	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
M-HYDROXYBENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
M-METHOXY-GLUCOTROPAEOLIN	0	Root	not available	3600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MACAENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MACAMIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	not available	8.0	-0.45	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
METHIONINE	15	Root	not available	2800.0	2.98	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
NIACIN	39	Root	not available	56.0	0.17	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Root	not available	3.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYBENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYBENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYBENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYBENZYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root	not available	5.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
PENT-4-ENYL-GLUCOSINOLATE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Root	not available	5530.0	2.37	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	not available	1830.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Root	500.0	1000.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Root	20000.0	20500.0	0.35	Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.

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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
Antitinnitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitriglyceride	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitubercular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antitumor (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	9	Duke, 1992 *
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic	4	Merck 11th Edition
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.