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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Agrimonia eupatoria (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Agrimony; Sticklewort
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf Wealth of India.
COSMOSIIN 4 Shoot *
COUMARINS 0 Plant 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.
CYNAROSIDE 3 Shoot *
ELLAGIC-ACID 51 Leaf Wealth of India.
ELLAGIN-TANNIN 0 Leaf *
ELLAGITANNINS 0 Shoot Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
EO 0 Plant 2000.0 -0.59 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
EUSCAPHIC-ACID 0 Shoot 15.0 *
EUSCAPHIC-ACID-28-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-ESTER 0 Shoot 15.0 *
FAT 0 Seed 350000.0 0.45 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant *
GALLO-TANNIN 2 Root *
GALLOTANNINS 0 Shoot Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
GENTISIC-ACID 8 Plant *
HOMOPROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 0 Plant *
HYPEROSIDE 30 Flower 3700.0 -0.41 *
ISOPULEGOLE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOPULEGOLE-ACETATE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Inflorescence 2100.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 3 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 *
5-HT-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 *
Abortifacient 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 5 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 18 *
Allelochemic 4 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allelopathic 3 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 4 *
Alpha-Glucosidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Analgesic 10 *
Androgenic 1 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiADD 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.