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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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View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
CIRSILINEOL 10 Tissue Culture not available 500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRSILIOL 3 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.
CIS-CHRYSANTHENOL 0 Plant 1.0 2000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-CHRYSANTHENYL-ACETATE 0 Plant 6.0 120.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-EPOXYOCIMENE 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.
CIS-SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Plant 1.0 200.0 0.65 Duke, 1992 *
CIS-SABINOL 0 Plant not available 45.0 -1.00 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.
CIS-THUJ-2-EN-4-OL 0 Plant 3.0 530.0 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.
COUMARIN 57 Plant not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
COUMARIN 57 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.
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Leaf not available not available not available Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
CUMINALDEHYDE 10 Shoot 4.0 160.0 0.60 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.
DEHYDROARTEMISINIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DELTA-CADINENE 9 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYARTEANNUIN-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYARTEMISININ 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYISOARTEMISININ-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEOXYISOARTEMISININ-C 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDRO-DEOXYARTEANNUIN-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROARTEMISIC-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.
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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
Antinephritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuralgic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antineuritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosaminic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive 9 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antiobesity 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiodontalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiotitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant 20 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antioxidant (LDL) 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antipancreatitic 1 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antiparkinsonian 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipeptic 1 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antiperiodontal 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiperiodontic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiperistaltic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antipermeability 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiperoxidant 2 Planta Medica, 57: A110, 1991.
AntiPGE2 1 Duke, 1992 *