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Plant Artemisia annua (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Qinghao; Sweet Annie; Annual Mugwort (GRIN); Annual Wormwood (GRIN); Sweet Wormwood (GRIN)
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
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 12.0 920.0 0.97 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE-HYDRATE 0 Leaf 4.0 2820.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf 100.0 8720.0 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLENE 0 Plant not available 80.0 not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARVACROL 37 Shoot 40.0 1640.0 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Shoot 3.0 120.0 -0.24 Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf 30.0 700.0 2.59 Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Shoot 75.0 2920.0 6.00 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.
CASTICIN 6 Plant not available 40.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOERIOL 7 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOSPLENETIN 8 Plant not available 350.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOSPLENETIN 8 Tissue Culture not available 650.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOSPLENOL-D 9 Plant not available 1000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOSPLENOL-D 9 Tissue Culture not available 625.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRCIEIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRCILINEOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRCIMARITRIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRSILINEOL 10 Plant not available 60.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRSILINEOL 10 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.
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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
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 *