Plant Linum usitatissimum (Linaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Flax; Linseed

How this plant is used

Food

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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
CHOLINE	20	Seed	910.0	1180.0	-0.46	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHROMIUM	24	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHRYSANTHEMIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-12-OXOPHYTODIENOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINOLEIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Seed	not available	4.3	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
COLININ	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CONIFERYL-ALDEHYDE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COPPER	12	Seed	17.0	23.0	0.74	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
CYANIDIN	7	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
CYANIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Cotyledon	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSYL-RUTINOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL-RUTINOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-TRIGLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANOGENIC-GLYCOSIDES	0	Seed	3310.0	8350.0	not available	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CYCLOLINOPEPTIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOLINOPEPTIDE-A	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOLINOPEPTIDE-B	0	Seed	not available	2.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Seed	not available	0.1	-1.10	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
Hypotriglyceridemic	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
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	8	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	8	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	5	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulin-Sparing	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.