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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
CAMPHENE 9 Plant 12.0 920.0 0.97 *
CAMPHENE-HYDRATE 0 Leaf 4.0 2820.0 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf 100.0 8720.0 -0.05 *
CAPILLENE 0 Plant 80.0 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CARVACROL 37 Shoot 40.0 1640.0 -0.43 *
CARVONE 19 Shoot 3.0 120.0 -0.24 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Leaf 30.0 700.0 2.59 *
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Plant *
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 40.0 *
CHRYSOERIOL 7 Plant *
CHRYSOSPLENETIN 8 Plant 350.0 *
CHRYSOSPLENETIN 8 Tissue Culture 650.0 *
CHRYSOSPLENOL-D 9 Plant 1000.0 *
CHRYSOSPLENOL-D 9 Tissue Culture 625.0 *
CIRCIEIOL 0 Plant *
CIRCILINEOL 0 Plant *
CIRCIMARITRIN 0 Plant *
CIRSILINEOL 10 Plant 60.0 *
CIRSILINEOL 10 Shoot 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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Histaminic 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Hypnotic 2 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypocholesterolemic 5 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 4 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipemic 1 *
Hypolipidemic 2 *
Hypotensive 8 *
Hypothermic 2 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 3 *
IKK-Inhibitor 2 *
Immunomodulator 3 *
Immunostimulant 3 *
Immunosuppressant 1 *
Inflammatory 1 *
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 4 *
Inotropic 3 *