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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Scutellaria baicalensis (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Skullcap; Huang Qin; Baikal Skullcap
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
N-HEXADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-NONADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-OCTADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-PENTACOSANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-TETRACOSANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-TETRADECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-TRICOSANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
N-TRIDECANE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
NEOBAICALEIN 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
NEOBAICALEIN 0 Root *
NEOCNIDILIDE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
NONANOIC-ACID 2 Root Essent. Oil *
NORWOGONIN 0 Root 10.0 *
O-CRESOL 6 Root Essent. Oil *
OCHRACIN 0 Root Essent. Oil *
OCTANOIC-ACID 5 Root Essent. Oil *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Root Essent. Oil *
OROXYLIN 0 Root *
OROXYLIN-A 4 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Depressant 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Dermal 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Dermatitigenic 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Differentiator 1 *
Diuretic 10 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Binder 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 2 *
Emetic 3 Martindale's 29th
Emmenagogue 2 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 *
Essential 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 5 *
Expectorant 4 Martindale's 28th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 15 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 15 Martindale's 29th
Fungistat 2 Laekeman, G.M., Van Hoof, L., Haemers, A., Vanden Berghe, D.A., Herman, A.G., and Vlietinck, A.J. Eugenol a Valuable Compound for In Vitro Experimental Research and Worthwhile for Further In Vivo Investigation. Phytotherapy Research 4(3): 93, 1990.