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Biological Activity Antibacterial

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List of activity chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Dosage Reference
ALLIIN not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLISTATIN not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLISTATIN-I not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLISTATIN-II not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLOALANTOLACTONE MIC=32 ug/ml Duke, 1992 *
ALLYL-2-PROPENE-L-THIOSULFINATE not available Duke, 1992 *
ALLYL-SULFIDE not available Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
ALOE-EMODIN MIC=2-64 ug/ml Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-BISABOLOL not available Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
ALPHA-CITRAL not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE not available Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands.
ALPHA-PINENE not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL MIC=800-1,600 ug/ml Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
ALPHA-TERTHIENYL not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJONE not available J. Ess. Oil Res. 7: 271.
ALSTONINE not available Duke, 1992 *
AMMORESINOL not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AMORPHASTILBOL 500 ug/ml Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
AMPHIBINE not available Duke, 1992 *
ANACARDIC-ACID not available Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Common Name Chemical Count Total Parts Per Million
Achyranthes bidentata Chaff Flower 2 0
Acinos alpinus Te de Sierra Nevada 9 73
Acinos suaveolens not available 26 1, 054, 811.4999980927
Aconitum napellus European Aconite; Monkshood; Aconite; Bear's-Foot; Blue Rocket; Friar's Cap; Garden Monkshood; Garden Wolfsbane; Helmet Flower; Queen's Fettle; Soldier's Cap; Turk's Cap 4 0
Acorus calamus Sweetflag; Calamus; Flagroot; Myrtle Flag; Sweet Calamus; Sweetroot 22 188, 730
Acrotrema arnottianum not available 1 5, 300
Acrotrema uniflorum not available 1 2, 400
Actaea cimicifuga Sheng ma; Bugbane; Foetid Bugbane 4 0
Actaea dahurica Sheng ma; Xing an sheng ma 2 0
Actaea pachypoda American Baneberry; Doll's-Eyes; White Baneberry; White Cohosh; Baneberry 1 0
Actaea racemosa Black Cohosh; Black Snakeroot 7 42
Actaea rubra Red Baneberry 1 0
Actaea spicata European Baneberry 1 0
Actinidia chinensis Kiwi 6 40, 670
Adansonia digitata not available 1 0
Adiantum capillus-veneris Maidenhair Fern 2 0
Adonis vernalis Spring Adonis 5 0
Aegle marmelos Bael de India; Bael fruit 6 585, 300
Aeolanthus myriantha Ninde 4 0
Aesculus hippocastanum Horse Chestnut 28 248, 312.7000579834