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
EPIZIZANAL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPIZIZANOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUDESMANE-SESQUITERPENES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUDESMOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	11000.0	21000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Leaf	347000.0	422000.0	3.22	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-VETIVENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCEROL	8	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEMICELLULOSE	0	Leaf	not available	458000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBISABOLENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOKHUSENIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOKHUSINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOKHUSINOL-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALENCENIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALENCENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVETISELINENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVETIVONE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KETONES	0	Root	468.0	11583.0	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
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 *