Plant Prunus persica (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Peach

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
(+)-ABSCISIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-METHYLENE-CYCLOARTANOL	5	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3',5'-DIHYDROXY-4',7-DIMETHOXY-FLAVANONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-ALPHA-METHYLSTIGMASTA-7,Z,24(28)-DIEN-3-BETA-OL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
A-DECALACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETALDEHYDE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFZELIN	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Fruit	420.0	3402.0	-0.12	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Fruit	10.0	86.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Bark	not available	43.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Fruit	2.3	1050.0	0.08	Duke, 1992 *
AMANDIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Leaf	not available	10000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Seed	25500.0	60000.0	0.63	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHOCYANIDIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	180.0	1458.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Fruit	0.0	0.1	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	14.0	1127.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Bark	not available	63000.0	-0.48	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
Percutaneostimulant	2	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	8	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	32	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	3	Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *