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
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
Antitrypanosomic	2	Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitubercular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	28	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (brain)	1	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.
Antitumor (Breast)	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (GI)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney)	2	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Pancreas)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	8	Duke, 1992 *