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Plant Rumex hymenosepalus (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Canaigre
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID 6 Plant not available 12000.0 not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LEUCOCYANIDIN 1 Root not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LEUCODELPHINIDIN 2 Root not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
LEUCOPELARGONIDIN 1 Root not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYSCION-EMODIN 0 Plant not available 3000.0 not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RESIN 0 Plant not available not available not available CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
STARCH 5 Plant 250000.0 400000.0 1.48 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SUGAR 0 Plant 80000.0 120000.0 1.41 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN 35 Plant 180000.0 350000.0 3.89 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Absorbent 1 Martindale's 29th
Anthelmintic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Iodine) 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidysenteric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihypertensive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Antilipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineoplastic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antinesidioblastosic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.