Biological Activity Purgative | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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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
ESERIDINE	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
GAMBOGIC-ACID	not available	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
GENKWANIN	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JESACONITINE	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LOBELINE	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCORINE	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MESACONITINE	0.3-0.5 mg/kg	Duke, 1992 *
MURICATIN-A	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEPHRITIC	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHORBOL	not available	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.
PHYSCION	ED50=>500 mg/kg orl mus	Duke, 1992 *
PODOPHYLLIN	not available	Martindale's 29th
PODOPHYLLOTOXIN	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOANEMONIN	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHEIN	ED50=97.5 mg/kg orl mus	Duke, 1992 *
RHEINOSIDE	ED50=15 mg/kg orl mus	Duke, 1992 *
ROBIN	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SENNOSIDE-A	ED50=13.5 mg/kg orl mus	Duke, 1992 *
SENNOSIDE-B	ED50=13.9 mg/kg orl mus	Duke, 1992 *

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List of Activity Plants.
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Plant Name	Common Name	Chemical Count	Total Parts Per Million
Verbascum thapsus	Mullein; Velvetplant; Flannelleaf; Flannelplant; Great Mullein	1	250
Verbena hastata	Blue Vervain; Wild Hyssop; American Blue Vervain	1	0
Verbena officinalis	Vervain	1	8, 000