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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CIS-SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Leaf 1.0 80.0 -0.29 *
CIS-SABINOL 0 Plant 100.0 1.00 *
COBALT 2 Plant 0.6 3.1 -0.38 *
COPAENE 1 Leaf 1.5 60.0 1.19 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
COSMOSIIN 4 Plant Wealth of India.
COUMARINS 0 Plant 3500.0 -1.00 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Leaf 0.3 11.0 -0.88 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DEACETYLMATRICAINE 0 Leaf *
DEACETYLMATRICARIN 0 Plant *
DELTA-4-CARENE 0 Leaf *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Leaf 0.2 8.0 -0.43 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
DESACETYLMATRICIN 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
DEXTROSE 1 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
DIHYDROPARTHENOLIDE 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
DULCITOL 2 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
EO 0 Flower 700.0 5000.0 -0.26 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
EO 0 Leaf 250.0 16000.0 0.39 *
EO 0 Plant 177.0 14000.0 0.32 *
EUCALYPTOL 13 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
EUGENOL 76 Plant 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.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Pediculicide 1 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Perfumery 29 Merck 11th Edition
Peristaltic 1 *
Pesticide 85 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Pheromone 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
PKC-Inhibitor 1 *
Plasmodicide 3 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 *
Prebiotic 1 *
Preservative 3 Merck 11th Edition
Probiotic 1 *
Probiotigenic 1 *
Progestational 1 *
Proliferant 2 *