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
ARTHAMARIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTHAMARININ	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	1200.0	2600.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	not available	66000.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	not available	500.0	1.04	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-THUJONE	5	Leaf	not available	1750.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
BISABOLENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHAMAZULENE	10	Leaf	not available	1700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-EPOXYOCIMENE	0	Leaf	800.0	5700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Leaf	2500.0	17000.0	0.48	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	334000.0	381000.0	6.47	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYPELENOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INULOBIOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOABSINTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Leaf	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
Anticataract	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antichilblain	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticold	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Anticoronary	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's	2	Martindale's 29th
AntiCTS	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCVI	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidandruff	1	A.L.L. Hunting. Encyclopedia of Shampoo Ingredients. Micelle Press, Cranford NJ. 467 pp.
Antidecubitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidementia	2	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antidepressant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidermatitic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidermatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	3	Jin, G-Z., Yamagata, Y., and Tomita, K.-i. 1989. Structure of Rutin Pentamethanol. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(2): 297-300, 1990.
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *