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
Decongestant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Degranulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Demulcent	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dentifrice	1	Martindale's 29th
Dermatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emollient	1	Merck 11th Edition
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Expectorant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	11	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	1	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *