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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
QUERCETIN 176 Shoot *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GALACTOSIDE 0 Plant Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-3-RHAMNOSIDE 0 Plant Wealth of India.
QUERCETIN-GLUCOSIDE 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.
QUERCITRIN 44 Flower *
QUERCITRIN 44 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ROSAMULTIN 0 Root 250.0 *
RUTIN 87 Inflorescence 1700.0 *
RUTIN 87 Leaf Wealth of India.
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Plant *
SILICIC-ACID 1 Exocarp 120000.0 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TANNIN 35 Bark 52800.0 -0.77 Wealth of India.
TANNIN 35 Leaf 50000.0 80000.0 -0.37 *
TANNIN 35 Shoot 30000.0 210000.0 1.66 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 2.4 -1.23 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.
TORMENTIC-ACID-28-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-ESTER 0 Shoot 19.0 *
TRITERPENES 0 Plant 15000.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant 6000.0 -0.51 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antihyperthyroid 3 *
Antiichthyosic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation 1 *
Antiinflammatory 22 *
Antiischemic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiLegionella 3 *
Antileishmanic 2 *
Antileukemic 13 Life Sciences 55: 1061.
Antileukotriene 3 *
Antilipolytic 1 *
Antilipoperoxidant 2 *
AntiLyme 1 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 3 *
Antimalarial 4 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanogenic 3 *
Antimelanomic 4 *
Antimetastatic 4 *