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Plant Saussurea lappa (Asteraceae)

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
DIHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE 0 Root 450.0 10500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Root 15000.0 70000.0 2.64 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Root not available 180000.0 5.24 Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GUAIA-3,9,11-TRIENE-12-ACID 0 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANOIC-ACID 0 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXANOIC-ACID 2 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INULIN 19 Root not available 180000.0 -0.49 Duke, 1992 *
ISOZALUZANIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KUSHTIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LACTONES 0 Root 7500.0 8250.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL 21 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE 22 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NAPHTHALINE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID 5 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root not available not available not available Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
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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 *