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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
ESCULETIN 30 Shoot Wealth of India.
ESCULETIN-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Plant *
ESCULETIN-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Shoot Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ESTRAGOLE 12 Essential Oil 100000.0 776300.0 0.44 *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Leaf *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Leaf Essent. Oil 690000.0 0.31 *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Root Essent. Oil *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Seed Essent. Oil 650000.0 1.23 *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Shoot 100.0 8100.0 1.37 *
ESTRAGOLE 12 Shoot Essent. Oil 750000.0 814000.0 *
ESTRAGONOSIDE 0 Shoot *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil *
EUGENOL 76 Shoot *
EUGENOL 76 Shoot Essent. Oil *
EUGENOL-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot 8.0 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Essential Oil 5300.0 -0.58 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Shoot *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER 5 Shoot Essent. Oil *
FAT 0 Seed 381000.0 0.61 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT 0 Shoot 72000.0 78000.0 0.59 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Edemagenic 1 *
Embryotoxic 2 *
Emetic 5 *
Emmenagogue 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 2 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Epileptigenic 2 *
Ergogenic 1 *
Essential 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 10 Australian J. Med Herbalism, 7: 29.
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 13 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.
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 1 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 26 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 36 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.