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Plant Arnica montana (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Leopard's-Bane; Mountain Tobacco
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
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Rhizome not available 10000.0 -0.89 Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL 71 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL-HYDROQUINONE-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECADIEN-(1,11)-TETRAIN-(3,5,7,9) 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECADIEN-(3,5)-TRIIN-(7,9,11)-OL-(1)-ACETATE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECAEN-TETRAIN 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECAPENTAIN 0 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECATRIEN-(1,3,5)-TRIIN-(7,9,11) 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIDECEN-(1)-PENTAIN(3,5,7,9,11) 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIMETHYLAMINE 1 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL 3 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL-EPOXIDE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaggregant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antialcoholic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 1 L. Gracza (1985) as cited by Buchbauer re antiacetylcholinesterase.
Antianaphylactic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiandrogenic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic 3 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antiasthmatic 1 Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antiatherogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 11 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibiotic 1 De Smet, P.A.G.M., Keller, K., Hansel, R. and Chandler, R.F., eds. 1993. Adverse Effects of Herbal Drugs 2. Springr-Verlag, Berlin. 348pp.