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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
Antipharyngitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque 7 Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21
Antiplasmodial 9 Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipneumonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipodriac 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antiproliferative 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostaglandin 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostanoid 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic 2 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac 2 Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antipyretic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular 7 Jimenez, J., Navarro, M.C., Montilla, M.P., Martin, A. and Martinez, A. 1993. Thymus zygis Oil: Its Effects on CCl4-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Free Radical Scavenger Activity. JEO5: 153-8.
Antiretinopathic 1 Duke, 1992 *