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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
KAEMPFERIDE 5 Shoot 19.0 *
KAEMPFERIDE-3-O-ALPHA-RHAMNOSIDE 0 Shoot 10.6 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Shoot 24.0 -0.34 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot 22.0 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-0-RUTINOSIDE 0 Shoot 20.0 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-RUTINOSIDE 0 Shoot 25.5 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-RHAMNOSIDE 2 Shoot 16.0 *
LEUCOANTHOCYANINS 0 Plant Wealth of India.
LUTEOLIN 78 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE 7 Plant Wealth of India.
LUTEOLIN-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
N-1-N-5-N-10-TRI-TRANS-4-COUMAROYL-SPERMIDINE 0 Flower *
NEOISOPULEGOLE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil Jim Duke's personal files.
NICOTINAMIDE 2 Leaf 100.0 300.0 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
POLYSACCHARIDES 0 Shoot 195000.0 200000.0 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Plant *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antitumor (Thyroid) 1 *
Antitumor-Promoter 10 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 3 *
Antitympanitic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiulcer 9 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiulcerogenic 1 *
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaricose 1 *
Antiviral 18 *
Antiwrinkle 1 *
Antiyeast 1 *
Anxiolytic 2 *
Aphidifuge 1 *
Apoptotic 8 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 5 *
Artemicide 1 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Ascaricide 1 *
Astringent 2 Merck 11th Edition
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.