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
Parasiticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Perfumery	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide	20	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Plasmodicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Preservative	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Prooxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	2	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.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Secretogogue	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Soap	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	3	Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Sunscreen	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Thermogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Thymoprotective	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).