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
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nociceptive	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.
Nodulation-Signal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Occuloirritant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	8	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osmoregulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxytocic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ozone-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
P21-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	4	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inhibitor	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.