Plant Alisma plantago-aquatica (Alismataceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Mud Plantain; Tse-Hsieh; Water Plantain; Ze-Xie

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PHENOL	26	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Rhizome	9560.0	11200.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	132000.0	-0.91	Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDOXINE	43	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL-3-O-6-STEAROYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Rhizome	151.0	322.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
STACHYOSE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Rhizome	54.0	68.0	-0.13	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Allelochemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	3	Martindale's 29th
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	2	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacrodermatitic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition