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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Angelica sinensis (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Dang Gui; Dong Quai; Dang Quai; Dang Qui; Dong Gui; Chinese Angelica
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
N-BUTYLIDENEPHTHALIDE 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-BUTYLIDENPHTHALIDE 0 Root *
N-BUTYLPHTHALIDE 1 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
N-DODECANOL 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-TETRADECANE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
N-VALEROPHENONE-O-CARBONIC-ACID 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
N-VALEROPHENONE-O-CARBOXYLIC-ACID 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
NEOANGELIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
NIACIN 39 Root 15.0 68.0 0.51 *
NICOTINAMIDE 2 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
OLEIC-ACID 18 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
P-CYMENE 16 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
PHENYLALANINE 7 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE 2 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 735.0 3340.0 -0.03 *
PHTHALIDES 0 Root Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antienterotic 1 *
Antiepileptic 5 *
Antiepitheleomic 1 *
Antiestrogenic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastritic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigingivitic 3 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 *