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
APIGENIN	101	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.
APIGENIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	2	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.
APIGENIN-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ARTEMISIA-ALCOHOL	0	Leaf	1.0	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMISIA-KETONE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMISIATRIENE	0	Leaf	1.0	65.0	-1.41	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMITIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ASCARIDOLE	15	Leaf	120.0	6600.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
ASCARIDOLE-ISOMER	0	Leaf	5.0	335.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	580.0	3100.0	-0.16	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	119.0	672.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	17700.0	100000.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE	2	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.
AUSTRICIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
AZULENE	10	Leaf	0.0	8000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BALCHANOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
BALCHANOLIDE-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
BENZALDEHYDECYANHYDRINGLYCOSIDE	0	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.
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Vulnerary	9	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).