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Plant Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Yarrow; Milfoil
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf 1.0 65.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 0 Leaf 1.0 30.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Leaf 1.0 15.0 -0.27 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HIMACHALENE 0 Plant not available 50.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 1.0 720.0 0.63 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-SITOSTEROL-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-THUJONE 5 Leaf 1.0 30.0 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE 14 Plant not available not available not available Wealth of India.
BETONICINE 2 Plant not available not available not available Wealth of India.
BORNEOL 35 Leaf 6.0 275.0 -0.14 Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Plant not available 50.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Plant 1535.0 8670.0 -0.53 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf 2.0 600.0 0.03 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHERENONE 0 Plant not available 70.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf 20.0 2880.0 -0.18 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiacrodynic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiADD 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin 3 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 11 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic 2 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 15 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 3 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *