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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
LACTIC-ACID 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MARMEDIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MERCURIC-ACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN 34 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN 34 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-3-RHAMNOSIDE 5 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-3-RHAMNOSIDE 5 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-3-XYLOGALACTOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-3-XYLOGLYCOGLUCURONIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-DIGLYCOSIDE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-DIGLYCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-MONOGLYCOSIDE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-MONOGLYCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-TRIGLYCOSIDE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-TRIGLYCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN-XYLOGLYCOGLUCURONIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NORKHELLIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID 0 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
Antidote (Camphor) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidote (Morphine) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric 1 Wealth of India.
Antiedemic 3 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antierythemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiestrogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant 7 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Antifertility 1 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 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiflu 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antigastric 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.