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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Argemone mexicana (Papaveraceae)

Common Names
Prickly Poppy
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
PALMITOLIC-ACID 0 Seed 12000.0 23600.0 1.00 *
PHYSETOLIC-ACID 0 Seed *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 176000.0 181000.0 -0.47 *
PROTOPINE 24 Plant 840.0 *
RESIN 0 Plant 17500.0 -0.79 *
RICINOLEIC-ACID 7 Seed 20000.0 39300.0 *
ROMNEINE 0 Plant *
SANGUINARINE 48 Seed *
TANNIN 35 Plant 11000.0 -1.06 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Mycobactericide 1 *
Mydriatic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Myocardiocontractant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Myocardiodepressant 1 *
Myocontractant 1 *
Myorelaxant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Narcotic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Nematicide 5 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neurotoxic 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Occulotensive 2 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Oxytocic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Paralytic 1 *
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.
Perfumery 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide 6 *
Phototoxic 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 *
Propecic 3 *
Prostaglandigenic 1 *