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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Raphanus sativus (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Radish
How this plant is used
Food
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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
NIACIN 39 Leaf 40.0 348.0 3.05 *
NIACIN 39 Root 3.0 68.0 0.51 *
NICKEL 3 Root 0.0 0.7 -0.77 *
NITROGEN 0 Root 2000.0 38570.0 1.32 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Root 160.0 3100.0 0.36 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Root 92.0 -0.60 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Root 91.0 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root 260.0 5040.0 -0.16 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Root 0.8 18.0 0.07 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Root 230.0 4455.0 1.41 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 240.0 10526.0 2.22 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 300.0 2609.0 -0.43 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 160.0 5850.0 0.41 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Root 70.0 1355.0 1.13 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 2070.0 20495.0 0.23 *
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 5000.0 43478.0 0.58 *
POTASSIUM 14 Root 2215.0 85700.0 5.12 *
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 11900.0 -0.06 *
PROLINE 0 Root 180.0 3490.0 1.03 *
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 13000.0 257000.0 1.98 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Immunomodulator 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th
Insectifuge 6 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 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant 3 Merck 11th Edition
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Larvicide 1 *
Laxative 4 *
Leptingenic 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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipolytic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Lipotropic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.