Plant Tilia sp. (Tiliaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Basswood; Lime; Linden

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
2-PHENYLETHANOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHYL-BENZOATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHYLPHENYLACETATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AFZELIN	1	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	21000.0	66000.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	232000.0	727000.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Leaf	575000.0	653000.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-TRANS-FARNESOL	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-TRANS-FARNESYL-ACETATE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Flower	not available	not available	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
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	7	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	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	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-97.
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Essential	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
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	12	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	7	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *