Plant Argemone mexicana (Papaveraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Prickly Poppy

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
ALKALOIDS	0	Plant	not available	1250.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-ALLOCRYPTOPINE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGEMONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGEMONINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Plant	not available	410.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELERYTHRINE	33	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CODEINE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROCHELERYTHRINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSANGUINARINE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	200000.0	393000.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3,7-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-GLUTAMIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	96000.0	188600.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
MORPHINE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORARGEMONINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	44000.0	85800.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	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
(+)-Inotropic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
12-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Abortifacient	2	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenolytic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Kubo, M., et al. 1994. Studies on Anti-cataract Drugs from Natural Sources. I. Effects of a Methanolic Extract and the Alkaloidal Components from Corydalis Tuber on in vit Aldose Reductase Activity. Biol Pharm Bull, 17(3): 458-459.
Allergenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amebicide	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Amphicholeretic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Analgesic	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase	3	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Antiacne	2	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antiadrenergic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiaggregant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *