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Plant Artemisia annua (Asteraceae)

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Common name(s)
Annual Mugwort (GRIN), Annual Wormwood (GRIN), Qinghao, Sweet Annie, Sweet Wormwood (GRIN)
How used
Medicinal

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# Activity Chemical Name Part Low PPM High PPM StdDev *Reference
0 (E)-6-METHYL-3,5-HEPTADIEN-2-ONE Leaf 25.0 375.0 -- *
0 (E)-ALPHA-BERGAMOTOL Shoot -- -- -- 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.
67 1,8-CINEOLE Leaf 2360.0 6600.0 0.32 *
67 1,8-CINEOLE Shoot 1.0 6600.0 0.00 *
0 2,2,6-TRIHYDROXYCHROMONE Shoot -- -- -- 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.
0 2,2-DIHYDROXY-6-METHOXYCHROMONE Shoot -- -- -- 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.
0 2,3-DIHYDRO-1,8-CINEOLE Shoot 1.0 40.0 -- 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.
0 3,3,6-TRIMETHYL-HEPTA-1,5-DIEN-4-OL Plant -- -- -- *
0 3,5-DIHYDROXY-6,7,3',4'-TETRAMETHOXYFLAVONE Plant -- -- -- J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
0 3-ISOBUTYLCADIN-4-EN-11-OL Plant -- -- -- 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.
0 3-METHYL-PINOCARVONE Plant -- -- -- *
0 4,5-SECOCADINANE Plant -- -- -- 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.
0 5,2',4'-TRIHYDROXY-6,7,5'-TRIMETHOXYFLAVONE Plant -- -- -- *
0 5,7,8,3'-TETRAHYDROXY-3,4'-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE Plant -- -- -- *
0 5-NONDECYLRESORCINOL-3-O-METHYL-ETHER Shoot -- -- -- 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.
0 6,7,3',4'-TETRA-O-METHYL-QUERCETAGETIN Leaf -- -- -- Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
0 6,7-DEHYDROARTEMISINIC-ACID Plant -- -- -- 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.
0 6-METHOXYKAEMPFEROL Plant -- -- -- *
0 6-METHOXYKAEMPFEROL-3-O-GLUCOSIDE Shoot -- -- -- 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.
0 7-HYDROXY-6,8-DIMETHOXYCOUMARIN Shoot -- -- -- 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.
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.