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
Hepatoregenerative	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hepatotonic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	14	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	1	Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hyperuricemic	1	Martindale's 28th
Hypnotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	15	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	11	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.