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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Piper methysticum (Piperaceae)

Common Names
Kava-Kava
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
FLAVOKAVIN-A 0 Root Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
FLAVOKAVIN-B 0 Plant *
FLAVOKAVIN-B 0 Root Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
FLAVOKAVIN-C 0 Plant *
FLAVOKAWAIN 0 Root 200.0 *
FLAVOKAWAIN-C 0 Plant 200.0 J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
FLAVOKAWIN-A 0 Leaf *
FLAVOKAWIN-A 0 Plant *
FLAVOKAWIN-A 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap 1620.0 *
FLAVOKAWIN-A 0 Rhizome *
FLAVOKAWIN-A 0 Root *
FLAVOKAWIN-B 0 Leaf *
FLAVOKAWIN-B 0 Plant *
FLAVOKAWIN-B 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap 1400.0 *
FLAVOKAWIN-B 0 Rhizome *
FLAVOKAWIN-C 0 Rhizome *
FLAVOKAWIN-C 0 Root *
FRUCTOSE 8 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GLUCOSE 7 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
HEXADECAN-1-OL 0 Rhizome *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Candidicide 1 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Cardioprotective 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Choleretic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Depressant 4 *
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Collyrium 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 3 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 3 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Demulcent 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Diuretic 1 *
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Endoanesthetic 4 *
Estrogenic 2 *
Expectorant 1 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.