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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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List of activity chemicals.
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Chemical Name Dosage Reference
AMINOPHYLLINE Merck 10th Edition.
ARSENIC Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
BETA-SITOSTEROL Martindale's 28th
CATHINONE Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
COCAINE Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
D-NORPSEUDOEPHEDRINE Merck 11th Edition
KHELLACLONE-DIESTER *
L-DOPA 50 mg/kg scu rat Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
MONELLIN *
SELENIUM Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL 2.5-5 *
THEOBROMINE Martindale's 28th
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List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Common Name Chemical Count Total Parts Per Million
Daucus carota Carrot 3 1.0199999995529652
Dendrobium nobile Noble Dendrobium 2 0
Dictamnus albus Akgiritotu; Burning Bush; Dittany; Gas Plant; Gazelotu 1 0
Dioscorea bulbifera Air Potato; Potato Yam 1 0.7400000095367432
Dioscorea sp. Wild Yam 1 0
Dioscorea villosa Wild Yam 2 700.8000000119209
Dodonaea viscosa Hopwood 1 0
Drynaria fortunei Fortune's Fern 1 0.05999999865889549
Duchesnea indica False Strawberry; Indian Strawberry; Mock Strawberry 1 0
Echinacea angustifolia Echinacea; Narrow Leaf Echinacea; Narrow Leaf Purple-Coneflower 1 0
Echinacea pallida Echinacea; Pale-Flower Echinacea; Pale Purple-Coneflower 1 0
Echinacea purpurea Echinacea; Eastern Purple-Coneflower; Purple-Coneflower 2 6.299999713897705
Echinacea spp Coneflower; Echinacea 2 1
Elaeagnus pungens Thorny Silver Berry 1 0
Elettaria cardamomum Cardamom 1 480
Eleutherococcus senticosus Eleuthero Ginseng; Siberian Ginseng; Spiny Ginseng; Wu jia; Ci wu jia (Pinyin) 2 5
Elytrigia repens Couchgrass; Doggrass; Quackgrass; Wheatgrass; Twitchgrass 1 510
Ephedra sinica Ma Huang; Chinese Ephedra 2 2.4000000953674316
Ephedra spp Ma-Huang 1 0
Equisetum arvense Field Horsetail; Horsetail 2 2.5999999046325684