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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	15	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	3	Merck 11th Edition
Ecbolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Edemagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	5	Wealth of India.
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	4	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.