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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Zea mays (Poaceae)

Common Names
Corn
How this plant is used
Food

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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
HEPTAN-2-OL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 10000.0 20000.0 *
HEPTAN-2-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
HEPTAN-2-ONE 0 Husk Essent. Oil *
HEPTAN-2-ONE 0 Leaf *
HEPTAN-2-ONE 0 Seed Essent. Oil 15000.0 *
HEX-1-EN-3-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-AL 0 Leaf *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 52000.0 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Shoot *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 5000.0 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-YL-ACETATE 0 Leaf *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Husk Essent. Oil 68000.0 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Leaf *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Plant *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Silk Stigma Style *
HEX-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIEN-1-AL 0 Silk Essent. Oil 3000.0 *
HEX-TRANS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Silk Essent. Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antischizophrenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscleromyxoedemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiseptic 33 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiserotoninic 1 *
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling 5 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisinusitic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antispare-Tire 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antispasmodic 27 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic 12 *
Antisteatotic 1 *