Plant Artemisia capillaris (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Capillary Wormwood

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
HEPTANOIC-ACID	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	not available	200.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID	7	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
M-CRESOL	8	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	not available	1000.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	37.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Plant	not available	0.1	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-EUGENOL	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOCAPILLENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONANOIC-ACID	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NORCAPILLENE	0	Plant	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-CRESOL	6	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-ETHYLPHENOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CRESOL	8	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMEN-8-OL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	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
Bacteristat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchorelaxant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist	3	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	14	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic?	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiodepressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cardioprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Carminative	1	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.
Chemopreventive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	2	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Cicatrizant	1	Duke, 1992 *