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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Sesamum indicum (Pedaliaceae)

Common Names
Sesame; Benneseed; Beni; Ajonjoli (Sp.); Sesamo (Sp.)
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
PENTANAL 0 Seed *
PHENOL 26 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 5710.0 9863.0 -0.20 *
PHOSPHOLIPIDS 0 Seed 111.0 760.0 -0.88 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 14000.0 1.66 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 5000.0 8898.0 0.94 *
PHYTATE 0 Seed 16160.0 17240.0 0.61 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed 7140.0 7490.0 1.41 *
PINORESINOL 2 Seed 163.0 *
PINORESINOL-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL(1,2)-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Seed 42.0 *
PINORESINOL-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL(1,6)-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Seed 21.0 *
PINORESINOL-GLYCOSIDE 0 Seed *
PLANTEOSE 0 Seed *
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 3489.0 7664.0 -0.43 *
PROLINE 0 Seed 8100.0 14277.0 0.58 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf 234000.0 0.22 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 141000.0 295000.0 0.54 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Fruit *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Leaf *
PUTRESCINE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 2 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anti-cAMP-Phosphodiesterase 1 *
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiAGE 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
Antiaggregant 6 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 3 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th