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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
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
Antiedemic 10 Duke, 1992 *
Antielastase 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antiescherichic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiesherichic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiesophagitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifatigue 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant 12 Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiflatulent 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigingivitic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antigliomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglutamaergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.