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
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Leaf	1.0	65.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE	0	Leaf	1.0	30.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CUBEBENE	0	Leaf	1.0	15.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-FARNESENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-HIMACHALENE	0	Plant	not available	50.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf	1.0	720.0	0.63	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-SITOSTEROL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-THUJONE	5	Leaf	1.0	30.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
BETONICINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
BORNEOL	35	Leaf	6.0	275.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Plant	not available	50.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	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.
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	1535.0	8670.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Leaf	2.0	600.0	0.03	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHERENONE	0	Plant	not available	70.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Leaf	20.0	2880.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	13	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotriglyceridemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	10	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	13	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	13	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	36	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	5	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.