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

Common Names

Tarragon

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATEMITIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-DIACETYLENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-DIACETYLENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	2.0	74.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-MYRCENE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Shoot	100.0	1070.0	4.04	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-PINENE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOQUERCETIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	7640.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	11390.0	12340.0	-0.13	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAMPESTEROL	2	Shoot	not available	30.0	1.00	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihepatitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	19	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	16	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihiccup	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihistaminic	17	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
AntiHIV	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrocoele	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.