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Common Names
Qinghao; Sweet Annie; Annual Mugwort (GRIN); Annual Wormwood (GRIN); Sweet Wormwood (GRIN)
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTEMISININ | 15 | Flower | 100.0 | 5000.0 | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ARTEMISININ | 15 | Leaf | 10.0 | 13800.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ARTEMISININ-B | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ARTEMISININ-C | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ARTEMISINOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ARTEMISITENE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands. |
| ARTEMISITINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ARTEMISYL-ACETATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| ASCARIDOLE | 15 | Shoot | 10.0 | 400.0 | not available | Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands. |
| ASTRAGALIN | 7 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands. |
| AXILLARIN | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BAURENOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands. |
| BENZYL-3-METHYL-BUTYRATE | 0 | Leaf | 10.0 | 360.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-AMYRIN | 9 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands. |
| BETA-AMYRIN-ACETATE | 4 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Wright,C.W.(Ed)2002.Medicinal&Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles.Artemisia.344pp.Maffei,M.(Ed)2002.Vetiveria.The Genus Vetiveria.Taylor&Francis.NY,NY.191pp.Southwell,I.,Lowe,R.(Eds)1999.Tea Tree.The Genus Melaleuca.Harwood Acad.Pub.Amsterdam,Netherlands. |
| BETA-ARTEANNUAN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991. |
| BETA-CADINENE | 0 | Leaf | 5.0 | 200.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE | 0 | Plant | 15.0 | 2240.0 | 2.03 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-CUBEBENE | 0 | Leaf | 55.0 | 1775.0 | 4.91 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-ELEMENE | 5 | Plant | 3.0 | 80.0 | -0.18 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Bradycardiac | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Bradycardic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Bronchomucolytic | 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. |
| Bronchomucotropic | 1 | Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994. |
| Bronchoprotectant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Bronchorelaxant | 3 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Bronchorrheic | 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. |
| Bruchiphobe | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Calcium-Antagonist | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Calcium-Antagonist? | 1 | Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991. |
| Calmodulin-Antagonist | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Cancer-Preventive | 23 | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Candidicide | 11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Candidistat | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Capillarigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Capillariprotective | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Carcinogenic | 5 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| Cardiac | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Cardiodepressant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |