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Plant Alisma plantago-aquatica (Alismataceae)

Common Names
Mud Plantain; Tse-Hsieh; Water Plantain; Ze-Xie
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
16-BETA-HYDROXYALISOL-B-MONOACETATE 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
16-BETA-METHOXYALISOL-B-MONOACETATE 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLALISOLS 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLVALINE 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ADENOSINE-5'-PHOSPHOSULFATE-SULFOTRANSFERASE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISMOL 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISMOXIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISOL-A 2 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISOL-A-MONOACETATE 5 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISOL-B 3 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISOL-B-MONOACETATE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISOL-C 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALISOL-C-MONOACETATE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC 2 Rhizome not available 0.1 -0.48 Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Rhizome 1630.0 3430.0 -0.76 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL 7 Plant not available not available not available 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
Antiperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiplatelet 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipurpuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antipyruvetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradiation 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiradicular 2 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
AntiRaynaud's 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.