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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant 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
4-METHYLSULFOXIDEBUTEN-(3)-YL-CYANIDE 0 Seed 200.0 *
ALANINE 3 Root 220.0 4265.0 0.41 *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 6.0 185.0 -0.21 *
ARGININE 14 Plant *
ARSENIC 2 Root *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 690.0 7822.0 0.20 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 810.0 7043.0 0.21 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root 226.0 6216.0 2.91 *
ASH 0 Root 10000.0 185700.0 3.37 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Root 480.0 9300.0 -0.08 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.3 26.2 -0.10 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 24.7 214.0 -0.21 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Root 0.0 1.0 -0.43 *
BETA-HEXYLALDEHYDE 0 Seed *
BORON 4 Root 0.6 64.0 1.48 *
BROMINE 0 Root *
CADMIUM 3 Root 0.0 0.6 -0.29 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Root 91.0 -0.86 *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 260.0 10130.0 1.45 *
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 2380.0 19130.0 0.05 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Skin) 1 (View) *
Anticancer (Stomach) 1 (View) *
Anticanker 3 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic 1 (View) *
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 7 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 3 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 4 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS 3 (View) *
Anticheilitic 3 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticirrhotic 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic? 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen 1 (View) *
Anticlaudificant? 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 4 (View) *
Anticoeliac 1 (View) Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 (View) *