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+ | <p>Table 2: Melatonin sources (Hardeland and Pandi-Perumal, 2005).</p> | ||
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+ | <td width="321"><strong>Melatonin source</strong></td> | ||
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+ | <td width="166"><strong>Melatonin content [ng/g]</strong></td> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Feverfew, fresh leaf</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">> 1,300</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="21">Feverfew, dried leaf</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">>7,000</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Almond seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">39</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="28"><em>Pimpinella peregrina, </em>dried root</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">38</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Sunflower seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">29</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Fennel seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">28</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Lemon verbena, young plant</td> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Balm mint, young plant</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">16</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Green cardamom seed</td> | ||
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+ | <td height="24">Art cherry, Montmorency, fruit</td> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Anise seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">7</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="22">Tall fescue seed</td> | ||
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+ | <td height="20">oat seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">1.8</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="24">Indian corn seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">1.3</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="21">Rice seed</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">1</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Red radish root tuber</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">0.6</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="23">Japanese radish , stem and leaves</td> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Tomato fruit</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">0.5</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19"><a href="/ginger-root.php">Ginger</a> tuber</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">0.5</div> | ||
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+ | <td height="19">Banana fruit</td> | ||
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+ | <div align="right">0.5</div> | ||
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+ | <p>Melatonin data sources and references: <br /> <br /> <em><span class="xauthor">Rüdiger Hardeland and SR Pandi-Perumal. </span>Melatonin, a potent agent in antioxidative defense: Actions as a natural food constituent, gastrointestinal factor, drug and prodrug. Nutrition & Metabolism</em> 2005, 2:22 doi:10.1186/1743-7075-2-22 ---(Table 2 ) <br /> <br /> Russel J. Reiter and Dan-Xian Tan. 2002. Melatonin: An antioxidant in edible plant. <a href="http://www.nyas.org/annals/index.asp">Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.</a> 957: 341-344. (Table 1)</p> | ||
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+ | <p>S. J Konturek, P. C. Konturek, T. Brzozowski. 2006. Melatonin in gastroprotection against stress-inuduced acute gastric lesions and in healing of chronic gastric ulcers. Journal of physiology and pharmacology, 57( Suppl 5): 51-66.</p> | ||
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+ | <p>Guofang Chen, Yushu Huo, Dun-Xian Tan, Zhen Liang, Weibing Zhang, Yukui Zhang. 2003. Melatonin in Chinese medicinal herbs. Life Sciences, 73: 19-26.</p><br /><div class="pagenavbar"><< <a title="Start" href="/melatonin-natural-sources/Page-1.php" class="pagenav">Start</a> < <a title="Prev" href="/melatonin-natural-sources/Page-1.php" class="pagenav">Prev</a> <a title="1" href="/melatonin-natural-sources/Page-1.php" class="pagenav">1</a> <span class="pagenav">2</span> <span class="pagenav">Next</span> > <span class="pagenav">End</span> >></div><br /></td> | ||
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Special Precautions of Melatonin
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The benefits of Melatonin are
Melatonin is best known as the hormone that helps us sleep. It has also been proven to stimulate natural "killer cells" by enhancing Interlukin-2 production. Besides helping to increase longevity of cancer patients, they also report a better quality of life. It inhibits cancer cell growth and proliferation; it destroys cancer cells, stops angiogenesis (new tumor blood vessel growth), and prevents harmful forms of estrogen from stimulating cancer cell growth. Melatonin is a molecule synthesized in the brain by the pineal gland and in the gastrointestinal tract. Melatonin is also synthesized in other organisms including plants.
Melatonin is believed to be responsible for the synchrony of circadian rhythm, modulating sleep patterns with day and night.
Melatonin is an <a href="/Antioxidant.php">antioxidant</a> and protects tissues from oxidative damage by <a href="/free-radical.php">free radical</a> elements. Further more, melatonin induces synthesis of endigenous antioxidants such as superoxide dismtase (SOD).
Several researches indicate that melatonin protects the gastrointestinal tract from irritation, reduces stress-induced lesion formation and heals ulcer.
Below are lists containing natural plant sources of melatonin. Melatonin content is in nanogram (ng) per gram of plant sample.
Table 1: Melatonin sources ( Rieter and Tan, 2002).
Melatonin source | Melatonin content (ng/g) |
Huang-qin | 7,110 |
St. John’s wort, flower | 4,390 |
Fever few, green leaf | 2,450 |
Fever few, gold leaf | 1,920 |
St. John’s wort, leaf | 1,750 |
White mustard seed | 189 |
Black mustard seed | 129 |
Wolf berry seed | 103 |
Fenugreek seed | 43 |
Sunflower seed | 29 |
Fennel seed | 28 |
Alfalfa seed | 16 |
Green cardamom seed | 15 |
Tart cherry fruit (Montmorency) | 15 |
<a href="/Flax-seed.php">Flax seed</a> | 12 |
Anise seed | 7 |
Coriander seed | 7 |
Celery seed | 7 |
Poppy seed | 6 |
Milk thistle seed | 2 |
Tart cherry fruit (Balaton) | 2 |
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