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Plant Artemisia capillaris (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Capillary Wormwood
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
CAPILLIN 5 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLONE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID 5 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHROMONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRSILINEOL 10 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIRSIMARITRIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Plant not available 8.0 -0.67 Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN 57 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROFALCARINOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROFALCARINONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Plant 1000.0 2300.0 -0.57 Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN 30 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN-6,7-DIMETHYL-ETHER 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EUPATOLITIN 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GENKWANIN 3 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
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitriglyceride 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antitumor 7 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antitumor (GI) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Prostate) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Skin) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter 1 Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiviral 7 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiwrinkle 1 Martindale's 28th
Anxiolytic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Astringent 1 Martindale's 28th