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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Yarrow; Milfoil
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ACONITIC-ACID 1 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ADENINE 11 Plant Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
ALLO-OCIMENE 1 Leaf 4.0 140.0 1.00 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-BISABOLOL 20 Leaf 1.0 915.0 1.26 *
ALPHA-CADINOL 3 Leaf 1.0 15.0 0.03 *
ALPHA-COPAENE 0 Leaf *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE 3 Leaf *
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE 0 Leaf *
ALPHA-PATCHOULENE 0 Plant 90.0 *
ALPHA-PEROXYACHIFOLIDE 4 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Leaf *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf 1.0 1000.0 -0.16 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf 2.0 1120.0 0.27 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf 1.0 80.0 -0.45 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Leaf *
ALPHA-THUJONE 6 Leaf 3.0 240.0 -0.52 *
ALPHA-THUJONE 6 Plant *
ALUMINUM 5 Plant 6.0 34.0 -0.69 *
ANACYCLIN 2 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
Antitartar 1 *
Antithiamin 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 2 *
Antithrombogenic 2 *
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyreotropic 1 *
Antithyroid 4 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 1 *
Antitonsilitic 1 *
Antitrichinosic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic 3 *
Antituberculic 1 *
Antitumor 24 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Bladder) 1 *
Antitumor (brain) 2 *
Antitumor (Breast) 6 *