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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Artemisia dracunculus (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Tarragon
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
PATULETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
PATULETIN-3-O-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant 120.0 *
PECTOLINARIGENIN 2 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
PEROXIDASE 0 Leaf *
PEROXIDASE 0 Plant *
PHELLANDRENE 4 Shoot Essent. Oil *
PHENOL 26 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
PHENOLASE 0 Plant *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Root *
PHLOROGLUCINOL 8 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 3130.0 3391.0 -0.09 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Plant 89.0 810.0 -0.55 *
PINOCEMBRIN 9 Shoot *
POLYACETYLENES 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
POLYPHENOL-OXIDASE 0 Leaf *
POLYPHENOL-OXIDASE 0 Plant *
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 30020.0 32719.0 0.76 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROLINE 0 Leaf *
PROLINE 0 Root *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 228000.0 247009.0 0.60 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiproliferative 1 *
Antiprostaglandin 6 *
Antiprostanoid 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 6 *
Antiprostatotic 1 *
Antiproteolytic 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Antiprotozoal 1 *
Antipruritic 3 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 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipulmonotic 1 Tyler, V.E.. 1994.
Antipurpuric 1 *
Antipyretic 8 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
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 23 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 2 *