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Common Names
Yarrow; Milfoil
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FARNESENE | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Plant | 7080.0 | 40000.0 | -0.17 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | 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. |
| FIBER | 15 | Plant | 69000.0 | 201000.0 | -0.16 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER(CRUDE) | 0 | Plant | not available | 69000.0 | -0.65 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER(DIETARY) | 0 | Plant | not available | 412000.0 | 0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FOLACIN | 15 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FOLIC-ACID | 23 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| FORMIC-ACID | 13 | 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. |
| FURFURAL | 6 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FURFURYL-ALCOHOL | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALACTOSE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| GALLIC-ACID | 62 | 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. |
| GAMMA-CADINENE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GERANYL-ACETATE | 5 | Plant | not available | 36.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GERMACRENE-D | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLUCOSE | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Testosterone-Inducer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Testosteronigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Thermogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Thymoprotective | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Tineacide | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Tinnitigenic | 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. |
| TNF-alpha-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor | 4 | Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237. |
| Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor | 3 | Azuma, Y., Onishi, Y., Sato, Y., Kizaki, H. 1995. Effects of Protein Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors With Different Modes of Action on Topoisomerase Activity and Death of IL-2-Dependent CTLL-2-Cells. J Biochemistry, 118: 312-318. |
| Toxic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Tracheorelaxant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tranquilizer | 5 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90. |
| Transdermal | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonicide | 7 | Martindale's 29th |
| Trichomonistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Triglycerigenic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Trypanocide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trypsin-Enhancer | 1 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93. |
| Tumor-Promoter | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |