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Plant Turnera diffusa (Turneraceae)

Common Names
Damiana
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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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
COBALT 2 Leaf 3.0 12.9 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
DAMIANIN 0 Leaf not available 70000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Leaf not available not available not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Leaf 9450.0 45000.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Leaf not available 109000.0 -0.65 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf not available 109000.0 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf not available 330000.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GONZALITOSIN 0 Shoot not available 16.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GONZALITOSIN-I 0 Branches not available not available not available Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
GUM 0 Branches not available 135000.0 not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
HEXACOSAN-1-OL 0 Shoot not available 80.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXACOSANOL-1 0 Branches not available not available not available 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 Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 428.0 2040.0 -0.81 Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 1.1 5.4 -0.45 Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANE 0 Shoot not available 130.0 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
Antiestrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue 6 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic 3 American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn 1 Duke, 1992 *