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
Antiradicular	9	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	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.
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antischizophrenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiseborrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	10	Martindale's 28th
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling	1	Planta Medica, 56(6): 681, 1990.
Antispasmodic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antistress	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisunburn	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyncopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisyndrome-X	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antithrombogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithyroid	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antithyrotoxic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.