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
ISORHAMNETIN-3-0-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KETOPELENOLIDES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIRIORESINOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MATRISIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-3-(5-PROP-1-YNE-1YL-THIENYL-(2)-PROPIONATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PATUELTIN-3-0-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Leaf	16.0	32.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PATULETIN-3-0-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	16.0	32.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLANDRENE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PINENE	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	258000.0	334000.0	0.89	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID	43	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUEBRACHITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-0-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-0-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	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
Antitrypanosomic	1	Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitumor	8	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Breast)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitussive	1	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Antitympanitic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiulcer	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaricose	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.