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
LOTAUSTRALIN	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUCENIN-1	0	Leaf	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.
LUCENIN-2	0	Leaf	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.
LUTEOLIN	78	Plant	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.
LYSINE	4	Plant	not available	0.2	-1.26	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	not available	2.5	-1.64	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MAGNESIUM	65	Hay	not available	3100.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	3715.0	7002.0	1.60	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MALIC-ACID	15	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.
MANGANESE	14	Hay	not available	8.1	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	50.0	70.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
MANNURONIC-ACID	0	Seed	4500.0	9000.0	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
METHIONINE	15	Seed	not available	0.1	-1.11	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-LINAMARIN	0	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.
MOLYBDENUM	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.
MUCILAGE	3	Seed	20000.0	84000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	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.
NEOLINUSTATIN	1	Seed	19.0	4540.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NH3	0	Seed	not available	3000.0	-1.41	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Seed	not available	15.0	-0.83	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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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.