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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 1 *
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 10 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.
Fungistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 3 *
Glutathione-Depleting 1 *
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 4 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 14 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 253.
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 1 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 1 Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.