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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DIHYDROXYCADINANOLIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Leaf 1400.0 40000.0 2.50 Duke, 1992 *
EPICUBENOL 0 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.
EPIDEOXYARTEANNUIN-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EPOXYARTEMISIC-ACID 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.
EUPALITIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUPATORIN 8 Plant not available 190.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELAN-3-BETA-OL 2 Leaf 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.
FRIEDELIN 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Root 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.
FRIEDELIN-3BETA-OL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Plant 12.0 600.0 2.64 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-SELINENE 0 Shoot 35.0 1400.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Plant 1.0 830.0 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
GERANIOL 35 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.
GERMACRENE-D 2 Plant 24.0 7320.0 5.75 Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANYLTRIACONTANOATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE 2 Plant 1.0 120.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ISOANNUALIDE 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
Diaphoretic? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 3 Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DME-Inhibitor 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 134.
DNA-Protective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Ecbolic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Edemagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Elastase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emetic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 3 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterotoxic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Epileptigenic 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Estrogenic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 12 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.
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor 20 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry