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

Common Names

Sesame; Benneseed; Beni; Ajonjoli (Sp.); Sesamo (Sp.)

How this plant is used

Food

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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
NONANAL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANAL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	114800.0	284544.0	1.36	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	not available	500000.0	0.93	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXY-PHENOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
PABA	10	Seed	not available	0.7	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	25584.0	54144.0	0.42	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	not available	120000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed	1490.0	1563.0	-0.26	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed Oil	not available	5000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Seed	0.5	10.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
PEDALIIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PEDALIIN	0	Seed	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEDALIN	0	Leaf	not available	3000.0	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
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Transdermal	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.
Tremorigenic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Triglycerigenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	8	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	4	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).