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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
FARNESENE 2 Plant *
FAT 0 Plant 7080.0 40000.0 -0.17 *
FAT 0 Seed 223000.0 334000.0 0.36 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FERULIC-ACID 61 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.
FIBER 15 Plant 69000.0 201000.0 -0.16 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Plant 69000.0 -0.65 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Plant 412000.0 0.52 *
FOLACIN 15 Plant *
FOLIC-ACID 23 Leaf Wealth of India.
FORMIC-ACID 13 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FURFURAL 6 Plant *
FURFURYL-ALCOHOL 1 Plant *
GALACTOSE 1 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
GALLIC-ACID 62 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.
GAMMA-CADINENE 0 Leaf *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Leaf 9.0 370.0 0.34 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERANIAL 13 Leaf 1.0 50.0 -0.40 *
GERANYL-ACETATE 5 Plant 36.0 -0.52 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Leaf *
GLUCOSE 7 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 49 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 5 Martindale's 28th
Antiburn 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Anticancer 10 *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 3 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon) 2 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 3 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *