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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Ambrosia hispida (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Margarita de Mar
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
3-HYDROXYAMBROSIN-DAMSINATE 0 Shoot 10.0 Herz, W., Gage, D., Kumar, N. 1981. Damsinic Acid and Ambrosanolides from Vegetative Ambrosia hispida. Phytochemistry 20: 1601-1604.
AMBROSIN 5 Plant 7400.0 Herz, W., Sumi, Y. 1964. Constituents of Ambrosia and Related Species. III. Constituents of Ambrosia hispida Pursh. J. Org. Chem. 29: 3438-3439.
AMBROSIN 5 Shoot 8.0 611.0 *
ANHYDROCORONOPILIN 0 Shoot 27.0 Herz, W., Gage, D., Kumar, N. 1981. Damsinic Acid and Ambrosanolides from Vegetative Ambrosia hispida. Phytochemistry 20: 1601-1604.
DAMSIN 4 Plant 3430.0 Herz, W., Sumi, Y. 1964. Constituents of Ambrosia and Related Species. III. Constituents of Ambrosia hispida Pursh. J. Org. Chem. 29: 3438-3439.
DAMSIN 4 Shoot 14.0 100.0 *
DAMSINIC-ACID 1 Shoot 150.0 *
ENT-KAUR-16-EN-19-OIC-ACID 0 Shoot 6.0 *
HISPIDULIN 7 Plant 370.0 Herz, W., Sumi, Y. 1964. Constituents of Ambrosia and Related Species. III. Constituents of Ambrosia hispida Pursh. J. Org. Chem. 29: 3438-3439.
HISPIDULIN 7 Shoot 255.0 277.0 1.00 *
PEDALITIN 0 Shoot 46.0 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Shoot 22.5 -1.00 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Allergenic 1 *
Antiaggregant 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 333.
Antihepatotoxic 2 *
Antiinflammatory 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, 1995
Antinociceptive 1 *
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 2 *
Antiperoxidant 1 *
Antiradicular 1 *
Antitumor 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiviral 1 Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991.
Artemicide 1 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Cancer-Preventive 2 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Cytotoxic 2 *
Estrogenic 1 *
Hypocholesterolemic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Molluscicide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant 1 *
Pesticide 1 *
Schistosomicide 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.