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

Common Names

Wormwood

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
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACETIN-3-0-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACETIN-3-0-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	16.0	32.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	40000.0	77000.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
THUJYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THUJYL-ISOVALERATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THUJYL-PALMITATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-DEHYDROMATRICARIA-ESTER	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-EPOXYOCIMENE	0	Leaf	800.0	5700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SAQBINYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-SPIROKETALENOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	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
CNS-Active	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagen-Sparing	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic	1	Martindale's 29th
Convulsant	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.
Corrosive	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Counterirritant	1	Merck 11th Edition
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	2	Newmark, T. M. and Schulick, P. 2000. Herbal Cox-2 Inhibition - Nature's Challenge to Arthritis, Cancer & Alzheimer's Disease. Hohm Press, Prescott AZ.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Diuretic	3	Duke, 1992 *