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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ajuga reptans (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Bugle; Bugleweed; Blue Bugle; Bugleherb; Common Bugle
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
24-NORCYASTERONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
29-NORSENGOSTERONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
AJUGALACTONE 2 Plant *
AJUGAREPTANSONE 2 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
AJUGASTERONE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
AJUGOL 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
AJUGOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ASPERULIN 0 Plant List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
AUCUBIN 20 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-ECDYSONE 2 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CYANIDIN 7 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CYASTERONE 5 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DELPHINIDIN 9 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
HARPAGIDE 6 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
HARPAGIDE-ACETATE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
POLYPODINE-B 0 Plant *
REPTIOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
TANNIN 35 Plant 150000.0 0.97 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
(-)-Chronotropic 1 *
(-)-Inotropic 1 *
Allelochemic 2 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.
Allergenic 1 *
Anabolic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Analgesic 1 *
Anthelmintic 1 *
Antiarthritic 1 *
Antibacterial 2 *
Anticancer 1 *
Anticariogenic 1 *
Antidiarrheic 1 *
Antidote (Amanitin) 1 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 276.
Antidysenteric 1 *
Antiedemic 1 Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antigonadotrophic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 1 *
AntiHIV 1 *
Antihypertensive 1 *
Antiinflammatory 2 Planta Medica, 55(7): 626.