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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Viola odorata (Violaceae)

Common Names
Common Violet, Sweet Violet
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
VIOLUTOSIDE 0 Plant *
VIOLIN 1 Flower *
VIOLIN 1 Root *
VIOLARUTIN 0 Flower 20000.0 *
VIOLAQUERCITRIN 0 Flower *
VANILLIN 28 Flower *
UNDECANONE-2 0 Flower *
TRIACETOAMINE 0 Root *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Plant *
SCOPOLETIN 44 Plant *
SAPONINS 5 Root 1000.0 25000.0 -0.55 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Root *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Leaf *
RUTIN 87 Flower 20000.0 -0.45 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant *
PROPIONIC-ACID 6 Leaf *
PIPERONAL 2 Flower *
PARMONE 0 Flower *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf *
ODORATINE 0 Root 14100.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 (View) Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.
Vermifuge 1 (View) *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Vasopressor 1 (View) *
Vasodilator 4 (View) *
Varroacide 1 (View) *
Uterotrophic 1 (View) Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Uterosedative 2 (View) Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ulcerogenic 3 (View) Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Ubiquiot 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
Tumorigenic 1 (View) Jim Duke's personal files.
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 (View) Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Trichomonistat 1 (View) Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trichomonicide 2 (View) *
Tremorigenic 1 (View) Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 (View) Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 (View) Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 (View) *