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Plant 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
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 20000.0 -0.72 Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR 41 Shoot 20.0 200.0 -0.15 Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLARIN 2 Shoot not available 920.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLENE 0 Shoot not available 108.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLENE 0 Shoot Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLIN 5 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAPILLIN 5 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-4-ENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAR-4-ENE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 502000.0 544000.0 -0.83 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARVONE 19 Plant not available not available not available Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
CHAVICOL-METHYL-ETHER 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 5 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 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
Antiaggregant 19 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 6 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic 2 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 15 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 7 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiamnesic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiamyloid-Beta 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.