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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
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 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Vulnerary 3 Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 3 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.