Plant Artemisia abrotanum (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Southernwood

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
ABROTINE	2	Plant	20000.0	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADENINE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ADENOSINE	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMISITIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALYCANTHOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	1800.0	21000.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
GUANINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOFRAXIDIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUEBRACHITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLETIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLIN	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URIC-ACID	0	Plant	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
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Perfumery	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	8	Duke, 1992 *
Photoactive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Prooxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Pyrogenic	1	Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Respirastimulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Secretomotor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	4	Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Sweetener	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Bernard, F. X., Sable, S., Cameron, B., Provost, J., Desnottes, J. F., Crouzet, J., Blanche, F. 1997. Glycosylated Flavones as Selective Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IV. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 41: 992-998.
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Uterosedative	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.