Plant Vetiveria zizanioides (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Cus-Cus; Vetiver; Cuscus Grass

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
(+)-KHUSITENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-CADINANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Root	not available	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7:3-CADALENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLO-KHUSINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CALACORANE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ISOVETIVENENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Root	not available	15.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Root	not available	165.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-VETISPIRENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-VETIVENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-VETIVENENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-VETIVONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	53000.0	90000.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ISOVETISPIRENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Root	not available	15.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-VETISPIRINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-VETIVENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-VETIVENENE	0	Root	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
Antialcoholic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergic	4	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianxiety	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	2	Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis., 4:203, 1982.
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacillary	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	9	Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	3	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticataract	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticatarrh	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	1	Duke, 1992 *