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
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	7	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiautistic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	22	Merck 10th Edition.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *