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

Common Names
Maca; Peruvian Ginseng
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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
WATER 0 Root 153000.0 -4.03 *
ZINC 77 Root 38.0 0.61 Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
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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 *
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 *
Antitumor (Gastric) 1 *
Antitumor (Lung) 3 *
Antitumor (Ovary) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 1 *
Antiulcer 9 *
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 *
Antiviral 5 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic 1 Martindale's 29th
Anxiolytic 4 Merck 11th Edition
Aphrodisiac 1 *
Apoptotic 2 *
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.