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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Nicotiana tabacum (Solanaceae)

Common Names
Tobacco
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
(+)-NORNICOTINE 0 Leaf *
(+)-SOLANONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(-)-ANABASINE 6 Leaf *
(-)-BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-EPOXIDE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
(11E,13R)-LABDA-11,14-DIENE-8,13-DIOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(11E,13S)-LABDA-11,14-DIENE-8,13-DIOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(13E)-ACETOXY-13-LABDEN-8-OL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(3S,6R,73,9R)-MEGASTIGMADIENE-3,9-DIOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(3S,6R,73,9S)-MEGASTIGMADIENE-3,9-DIOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(E)-3-ISOPROPYL-8-METHYLHEPTA-4,6-DIEN-1-OL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(E)-5-ISOPROPYL-6,7-EPOXY-8-HYDROXY-8-METHYLNONAN-2-ONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(E)-5-ISOPROPYL-8-HYDROXY-8-METHYLNON-6-EN-2-ONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(E)-5-ISOPROPYL-8-HYDROXYNON-6-EN-2-ONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(E)-5-ISOPROPYLNON-3-ENE-2,8-DIOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
0-ETHYLANILINE 0 Leaf *
1,2(BETA-PYRIDYL)PIPERIDINE-ANABASINE 0 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
1,2,5,6-TETRAHYDROPURIDINE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
1,8-CINEOLE 67 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
1-OXO-ALPHA-CYPERONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
11-NOR-8-HYDROXY-9-DRIMENONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 3 *
Antiaggregant 9 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 4 *
Antialcoholic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergic 5 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 4 *
Antialzheimeran 2 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
Antiamebic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antianaphylactic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianginal 1 *
Antiangiogenic 2 *
Antiaphthic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiapoplectic 1 *
Antiarachidonate 1 *
Antiarrhythmic 5 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 2 *
Antiarthritic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).