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

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
ACONITIC-ACID	1	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.
ADENINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CADINOL	3	Leaf	1.0	15.0	0.03	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CURCUMENE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-MUUROLENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PATCHOULENE	0	Plant	not available	90.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PEROXYACHIFOLIDE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Leaf	1.0	1000.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Leaf	2.0	1120.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Leaf	1.0	80.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJONE	6	Leaf	3.0	240.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJONE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Plant	6.0	34.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
ANACYCLIN	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	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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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
Antiuremic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivaccinia	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antivertigo	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	27	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antivulvitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiwrinkle	1	Martindale's 28th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	8	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphidifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *