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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
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf 1.0 65.0 -0.30 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 0 Leaf 1.0 30.0 -1.00 *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Leaf 1.0 15.0 -0.27 *
BETA-ELEMENE 5 Leaf *
BETA-FARNESENE 0 Leaf *
BETA-HIMACHALENE 0 Plant 50.0 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Leaf 1.0 720.0 0.63 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-SITOSTEROL-ACETATE 0 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-THUJONE 5 Leaf 1.0 30.0 -0.58 *
BETAINE 14 Plant Wealth of India.
BETONICINE 2 Plant Wealth of India.
BORNEOL 35 Leaf 6.0 275.0 -0.14 *
BORNYL-ACETATE 12 Plant 50.0 -0.44 *
BUTYRIC-ACID 6 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant *
CALCIUM 28 Plant 1535.0 8670.0 -0.53 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf 2.0 600.0 0.03 *
CAMPHERENONE 0 Plant 70.0 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf 20.0 2880.0 -0.18 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 5 Merck 11th Edition
Ataxigenic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Atherogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic 1 *
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Bacteristat 2 Lamikanra, A., Ogundaini, A.O., and Ogungbamila*, F.O. Antibacterial Constituents of Alchornea cordifolia Leaves. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 198.
Barbituate-Synergist 1 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 *
Beta-Blocker 2 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 3 *
Bifidogenic 1 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bradycardic 1 Martindale's 28th
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchomucolytic 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Bronchomucotropic 1 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Bronchorelaxant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.