Plant Saussurea lappa (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Costus; Kuth

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
BETA-IONONE	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SELININE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETULIN	13	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
CAMPHENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	8	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEDRENE	1	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEDROL	3	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-DIHYDROIONONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COSTIC-ACID	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COSTOL	0	Root	210.0	4900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COSTUNOLIDE	9	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COSTUS-ACID	0	Root	420.0	9800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COSTUS-LACTONE	0	Root	330.0	7700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDRO-DEHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROAPLOTAXENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROCOSTUNOLIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Alcohol-Dehydrogenase-Inhibitor	1	Martindale's 29th
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
Allergenic	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	3	Kauderer, B., Zamith, H., Paumgartten, F.J.R., and Speit, G. Evaluation of the Mutagenicity of B-Myrcene in Mammalian Cells In Vitro. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis 18: 28-34, 1991.
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antialopecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *