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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
Sprout-Inhibitor 1 Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Stimulant 2 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Succinoxidase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sunscreen 1 Duke, 1992 *
Surfactant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Teratogenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Hydroxylase-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosterone-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 5 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 4 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tracheorelaxant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 8 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 7 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.