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Common Names
Marshmallow; White Mallow
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EO | 0 | Flower | not available | 200.0 | -0.42 | Wealth of India. |
| EO | 0 | Leaf | not available | 200.0 | -1.00 | Wealth of India. |
| EO | 0 | Root | 54.0 | 2000.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERUCIC-ACID | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| FAT | 0 | Root | 540.0 | 5000.0 | -0.60 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | 128000.0 | 172000.0 | -0.49 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER | 15 | Root | not available | 83000.0 | -0.11 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| FIBER(CRUDE) | 0 | Root | not available | 83000.0 | -0.84 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER(DIETARY) | 0 | Root | not available | 523000.0 | 1.36 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALACTURONIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GALACTURONO-RHAMNANS | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| GALACTURONORHAMNOSE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GLUCAN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GLUCOSAN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GLUCOSE | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| HEMICELLULOSE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiestrogenic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antifatigue | 6 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antifeedant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifertility | 2 | Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989. |
| Antifibrinolytic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |
| Antifibromyalgic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrosarcomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrotic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiflu | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |
| Antifuruncular | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antigallstone | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastric | 1 | Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85. |
| Antigastritic | 4 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigenotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiglycosuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigonadotropic | 3 | Jim Duke's personal files. |