Plant Ammi visnaga (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Visnaga

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
2-METHYL-5,8-DIMETHOXY-FURANO-(4',5',6,7)-CHROMONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3',4'-DIHYDROXY-3',4'-DIHYDROSESELIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5,7-DIHYDROXY-2-METHYL-CHROMONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5,7-DIHYDROXY-4'-METHOXYFLAVONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
8-HYDROXY-5-METHOXY-PSORALEN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACACETIN	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PYRONE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMMIOL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHOCYANIDIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASTRAGALIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AVISAN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOPYRONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE	19	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMONES	0	Flower	11460.0	15900.0	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
Hypocholesterolemic	4	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hypoglycemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 165
Hypotensive	5	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.
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	5	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	4	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic	1	Martindale's 28th