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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
CHOLINE 20 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIEN-TETRAIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROHELENALIN 9 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIOXYSTEARIC-ACID 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EN-PENTAIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Flower 400.0 1400.0 -0.38 Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Rhizome 5000.0 63100.0 0.25 Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Root 17700.0 37400.0 1.11 Duke, 1992 *
EUPAFOLIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FARADIOL 2 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID 13 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Rhizome not available 25000.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Rhizome not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HELENALIN 34 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HELENIEN 2 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADECATRIIEN-(1,7,9)-TRIIN-(11,13,15) 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HISPIDULIN 7 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INULIN 19 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INULIN 19 Rhizome 90000.0 120000.0 1.00 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
Insectiphile 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 5 Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 1 Berenbaum, M. R., The natives knew, Chemtech, (May), 1990, 275-279.
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 2 Duke, 1992 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 3 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Memorigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator 2 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.