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Common Names
Leopard's-Bane; Mountain Tobacco
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISOBUTYRIC-ACID | 2 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOBUTYRIC-ACIDPHLORYLESTER | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOQUERCITRIN | 22 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LACINIATIN | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LACTIC-ACID | 8 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ACID | 7 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUTEIN | 15 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUTEOLIN | 78 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LUTEOLIN-7-O-MONOGLUCOSIDE | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| M-PHLOROL-METHYL-ETHER | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALIC-ACID | 15 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MUCILAGE | 3 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PATULETIN | 2 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PENTAIN-ON | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYTOSTEROLS | 2 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCETIN-3-GLUCO-GALACURONIDE | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| REDUCING-SUGARS | 0 | Rhizome | not available | 5000.0 | -1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SPINACETIN | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Enterorelaxant | 1 | J. Aromatherapy 4: 22. |
| Enterotoxic | 1 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ethanolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Flatugenic | 1 | Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994. |
| FLavor | 6 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Floral-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Fungicide | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungistat | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Fungitoxic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Gastroirritant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gastrostimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Gram(+)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemopoietic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemostat | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |