Plant Vanilla planifolia (Orchidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Vanilla; Bourbon Vanilla

How this plant is used

Food

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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
HEPTACOS-1-ENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADECANOIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTANOIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
HEXACOSANE	0	Fruit	not available	24.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADEC-1-ENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADECAN-2-ONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYRIC-ACID	2	Fruit	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.
LIMONENE	60	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	not available	135.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Fruit	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.
METHYL-ACETATE	3	Fruit	not available	84.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ANISATE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
METHYL-LINOLEATE	0	Fruit	not available	21.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PALMITATE	0	Fruit	not available	13.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-VANILLATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	12.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
N-CAPRYLIC-ACIDESTER	0	Fruit	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.
N-DOCOSANE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-DOTRIACONTANE	0	Fruit	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
Antipseudomonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipsittacotic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac	2	Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antipyretic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyruvetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular	9	Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antirheumatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antisclerodermic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiseborrheic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	21	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antisickling	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antisinusitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antispasmodic	8	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispastic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antistaphylococcic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antistomatitic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antistress	1	Duke, 1992 *