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
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	6	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Hypnotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypotensive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	4	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	12	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	1	J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	9	Duke, 1992 *