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Common Names
Genet; Spanish Broom; Weaver's Broom
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GENISTEIN | 81 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| JUNCEIN | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Seed | 68800.0 | 85312.0 | -0.19 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUPEOL | 21 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUTEOLIN-4'-GLUCOSIDE | 1 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE | 7 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRISTIC-ACID | 6 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| N-METHYL-CYTISINE | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| N-NONACOSANE | 1 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ORIENTIN | 4 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Stem | not available | 2600.0 | 0.07 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Plant | not available | 110000.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | 300000.0 | 378000.0 | 1.28 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Dt | not available | 110000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCETIN | 176 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SCOPARIN | 2 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SITOSTEROL | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Estrogen-Agonist | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999. |
| Estrogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Flatulent | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FLavor | 3 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| FPTase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungicide | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungistat | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hallucinogenic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemostat | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Hepatocarcinogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatomagenic | 1 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 5 | Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210. |
| Hepatotropic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histamine-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histidine-Kinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 1 | Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990. |
| Hypercholesterolemic | 2 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |