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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

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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
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf	2941.0	11225.0	6.07	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Leaf Essent. Oil	364000.0	385000.0	2.72	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL	23	Root Essent. Oil	not available	6900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Essential Oil	not available	429000.0	2.82	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Leaf	236.0	6125.0	7.57	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	33000.0	2.39	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Resin, Exudate, Sap	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	not available	19200.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-MENTH-2-EN-1-OL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SABINENE-HYDRATE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	4200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIRIDIFLORENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	17500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIRIDIFLORENE	0	Leaf	103.0	257.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
VIRIDIFLOROL	1	Essential Oil	not available	5800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIRIDIFLOROL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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
Secretogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	8	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Spasmogenic	5	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Stimulant	1	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Surfactant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Testosterone-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal	6	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tumor-Promoter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Vibriocide	1	Wealth of India.
Vulnerary	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-91.