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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Turnera diffusa (Turneraceae)

Common Names
Damiana
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
COBALT 2 Leaf 3.0 12.9 -0.22 *
DAMIANIN 0 Leaf 70000.0 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
EO 0 Leaf 2100.0 10000.0 -0.14 *
FAT 0 Leaf 9450.0 45000.0 -0.23 *
FIBER 15 Leaf 109000.0 -0.65 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 109000.0 -0.48 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 330000.0 -0.54 *
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GONZALITOSIN 0 Shoot 16.0 *
GONZALITOSIN-I 0 Branches Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GUM 0 Branches 135000.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GUM 0 Leaf 31500.0 150000.0 1.11 *
HEXACOSAN-1-OL 0 Shoot 80.0 *
HEXACOSANOL-1 0 Branches Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
IRON 6 Leaf 19.0 88.0 -0.70 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 428.0 2040.0 -0.81 *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 1.1 5.4 -0.45 *
N-TRIACONTANE 0 Shoot 130.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Coleoptophile 1 *
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Convulsant 1 *
Copper-Antagonist 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
Coronary-Dilator 1 McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Counterirritant 2 Martindale's 29th
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 1 *
Culicide 1 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 2 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 2 *
Decongestant 1 *
Degranulant 1 *
Dentifrice 2 Martindale's 29th
Deodorant 3 Merck 11th Edition
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 1 *
Detoxicant 1 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *