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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vanilla planifolia (Orchidaceae)

Common Names
Vanilla; Bourbon Vanilla
How this plant is used
Food
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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
N-EICOSANE 0 Fruit *
N-HENEICOSANE 0 Fruit *
N-HENTRIACONTANE 3 Fruit *
N-HEPTACOSANE 0 Fruit *
N-HEPTADECANE 0 Fruit *
N-HEXACOSANE 2 Fruit *
N-HEXADECANE 0 Fruit *
N-HEXATRIACONTANE 0 Fruit *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Fruit *
N-NONADECANE 0 Fruit *
N-OCTACOSANE 0 Fruit *
N-OCTADECANE 0 Fruit *
N-PENTACOSANE 0 Fruit *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Fruit *
N-PENTATRIACONTANE 0 Fruit *
N-TETRACOSANE 0 Fruit *
N-TETRADECANE 0 Fruit *
N-TETRATRIACONTANE 0 Fruit *
N-TRIACONTANE 0 Fruit *
N-TRICOSANE 0 Fruit *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiincontinence 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiinflammatory 16 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiischemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antikeratotic 1 *
Antiketotic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiklebsiellic 1 *
Antilactobacillic 1 *
AntiLegionella 1 *
Antileishmanic 1 *
Antileukemic 5 Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antileukotriene-D4 2 *
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 *
Antilisteria 1 *
Antilithic 1 *
Antilymphedemic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antilymphomic 1 *
Antimelanogenic 1 *
Antimelanomic 1 *