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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Artemisia pallens (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Davana
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
2,5-DIVINYL-2-METHYL-TETRAHYDROFURAN 0 Plant *
2-ACETYL-5-METHYL-FURAN 0 Plant *
2-METHYL-2-VINYL-5-ETHYL-TETRAHYDROFURAN 0 Plant *
5-ACETYL-2-METHYL-2-VINYL-TETRAHYDROFURAN 0 Plant *
ALCOHOLS 0 Essential Oil *
ALLO-AROMADENDRENE 0 Plant 6.0 29.0 -0.59 *
ALPHA-GURJUNENE 0 Plant *
AROMADENDRENE 3 Plant 3.0 13.0 -0.60 *
ARTEMONE 0 Plant *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Plant 3.0 12.0 0.06 *
BETA-EUDESMOL 13 Plant 26.0 116.0 0.85 *
BETA-MAALIENE 0 Plant 3.0 12.0 -1.00 *
BICYCLOELEMENE 0 Plant 4.0 17.0 1.00 *
BICYCLOGERMACRENE 0 Plant 78.0 348.0 1.35 *
CADINENE 4 Plant *
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Plant *
CINNAMYL-CINNAMATE 1 Plant *
CIS-(ERYTHRO)-DAVANAFURAN 0 Plant 1.0 6.0 *
CIS-(THREO)-DAVANAFURAN 0 Plant 8.0 35.0 *
CIS-LINALOL-OXIDE 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 1 *
Allelopathic 1 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.
Allergenic 2 *
Analgesic 1 Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Anesthetic 1 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.
Anhydrotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacetylcholinesterase 1 *
Antiacne 2 *
Antiallergic 1 *
Antianoxic 1 Yamahara, J., Matsuda, H., Naitoh, Y., Fujimura, H., and Tamai, Y. 1990. Antianoxic Action and Active Constituents of Atractylodis Lanceae Rhizoma. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2033-2034, 1990.
Antiasthmatic 2 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis., 4:203, 1982.
Antiatherosclerotic 1 *
Antibacterial 3 *
Anticariogenic 1 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.
Antidermatitic 1 *
AntiEBV 1 *
Antiedemic 1 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antifeedant 2 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Antiinflammatory 1 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antileishmanic 1 *