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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
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
Antiperiodontitic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperoxidant 1 Planta Medica, 57: A54, 1991.
Antipharyngitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque 5 Duke, 1992 *
AntiPMS 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 4 Chiang, L. C., Chiang, W., Chang, M. Y., Ng, L. T., Lin, C. C. 2003. Antileukemic activity of selected natural products in Taiwan. Am J Chin Med, 31(1):37-46.
Antiprostaglandin 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatitic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac 1 Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antipyretic 3 HerbalGram No. 20, page 40.
Antipyruvetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular 3 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
AntiRaynaud's 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiretinopathic 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
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antirhinitic 1 Duke, 1992 *