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Common Names
Snakeplant
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,7-DIMETHYLPHENANTHRENE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALKALOIDS | 0 | Seed | not available | 560.0 | -0.79 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHANOCLAVINE | 0 | Seed | not available | 40.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ELYMOICLAVINE | 0 | Seed | not available | 15.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERGINE | 0 | Seed | not available | 100.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERGOMETRINE | 7 | Seed | not available | 20.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERGOMETRININE | 0 | Seed | not available | 20.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOERGINE | 1 | Seed | not available | 190.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LYSERGOL | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PENNICLAVINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHENANTHRENE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TRYPTOPHAN | 29 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TUBICORYNE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Abortifacient | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Analgesic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianxiety | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antidementia | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antidepressant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antidyskinetic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antihypertensive | 1 | J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079. |
| Antiimplantation | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiinsomniac | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antimanic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antimenopausal | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antimigraine | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antioxidant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiparkinsonian | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiphenylketonuric | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiprostaglandin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipsychotic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antirheumatic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antiscoliotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Carcinogenic | 1 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |