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Biological Activity Expectorant

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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
HYDROXYGENKWANIN not available Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
INULIN not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ISOMANGIFERIN not available Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
LIMONENE not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL not available Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
LOBELINE not available Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
LYCORINE not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MARRUBIIN 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.
MENTHOL not available Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
METHYL-CYSTEINE-HYDROCHLORIDE not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ISOEUGENOL not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NEVADENSIN not available Duke, 1992 *
PINENE not available Duke, 1992 *
PINITOL FEA Duke, 1992 *
PLATYCODIN not available Duke, 1992 *
RORIFON not available Duke, 1992 *
SANGUINARINE 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.
SCILLITIN not available Duke, 1992 *
SELINENE not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPIN not available Merck 11th Edition
List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name Common Name Chemical Count Total Parts Per Million
Vaccinium corymbosum Blueberry 6 0.7299999874085188
Vaccinium macrocarpon Cranberry; Large Cranberry; American Cranberry 1 372
Vaccinium myrtillus Bilberry; Whortleberry; Dwarf Bilberry 6 0.9719999791122973
Vaccinium vitis-idaea Cowberry; Lingen; Lingonberry 1 4, 080
Valeriana jatamansi Indian Valerian 1 0
Valeriana officinalis Valerian; Common Valerian; Garden-Heliotrope 10 961, 575
Vanilla planifolia Vanilla; Bourbon Vanilla 5 416
Veratrum album White Hellebore 1 0
Veratrum viride American Hellebore; Indian Poke 1 0
Verbena officinalis Vervain 1 0
Vetiveria zizanioides Cus-Cus; Vetiver; Cuscus Grass 5 180
Viburnum opulus Crampbark; European Cranberry Bush; Guelder Rose; Snowballbush 2 3, 600
Viburnum prunifolium Black Haw 1 0
Vitex agnus-castus Chaste-Tree 9 1, 205, 789.6999998838
Vitis vinifera Grape; European Grape; Wine Grape; Grapevine; Vigne Vinifere (Fr.); Weinrebe (Ger.); Parra (Sp.); Vid (Sp.) 7 3, 361, 600
Zanthoxylum alatum Indian Prickly Ash; Wartara Oil Tree 3 0
Zea mays Corn 12 7, 509
Zingiber officinale Ginger 13 640, 115