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Plant Ammi visnaga (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Visnaga
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
STEARIC-ACID 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNINS 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-LINALOL-OXIDE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISAMMIDIN 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISAMMINOL 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNADIN 5 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAGAN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAGANE 0 Seed 2000.0 5000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAGIN 1 Seed 450.0 10000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAGININ 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAGINONE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAGION 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VISNAMMIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN 43 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE 3 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
Myorelaxant 2 Martindale's 28th
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Narcotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide 6 Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
NEP-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Neuroprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Occuloirritant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ovicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.