Plant Actaea cimicifuga (Ranunculaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sheng ma; Bugbane; Foetid Bugbane

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIMIFUGINE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Rhizome	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
Antidandruff	1	A.L.L. Hunting. Encyclopedia of Shampoo Ingredients. Micelle Press, Cranford NJ. 467 pp.
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysmenorrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiflu	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antihemolytic	1	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypercholesterolemic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.