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

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

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant 3470.0 -0.19 *
MALTOSE 2 Leaf 1490.0 4000.0 *
MANGANESE 14 Plant 80.0 -0.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MENTHOL 63 Essential Oil *
MENTHOL 63 Shoot 50.0 500.0 0.11 *
MENTHONE 30 Essential Oil *
MENTHONE 30 Shoot *
METHYL-AMYL-KETONE 0 Shoot *
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Plant 172.0 7000.0 0.46 *
METHYL-EUGENOL 20 Plant 290.0 2900.0 2.73 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
METHYL-ISOEUGENOL 15 Essential Oil *
METHYL-ISOEUGENOL 15 Shoot *
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil *
MYRCENE 22 Shoot 80.0 1000.0 0.80 *
N-HENTRIACONTANE 3 Shoot *
NARINGENIN 56 Shoot 44.0 97.0 1.00 *
NEROL 10 Leaf Essent. Oil 670000.0 1.00 *
NEROL 10 Shoot 670.0 6700.0 3.46 *
NEROLIDOL 11 Shoot 238.0 0.31 *
NIACIN 39 Plant 90.0 0.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Bradycardic 1 Martindale's 28th
Bronchodilator 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchomucolytic 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Bronchomucotropic 1 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.
Bronchoprotectant 1 *
Bronchorelaxant 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchorrheic 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Bruchifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Bruchiphobe 1 *
Calcium-Antagonist 12 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Inhibitor 1 Schussler, M., Fricke, U., Nikolov, N., and Holzl, J. 1991. Comparison of the Flavonoids Occurring in Crataegus species and Inhibition of 3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Phosphodiesterase. Plant Medica 57: Suppl Issue 2. p.A-133.
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive 71 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 17 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat 4 *
Capillarifortificant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillarigenic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.