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
Fungistat	7	Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrosedative	1	Merck 11th Edition
Gastrostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glaucomagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic	2	R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Hemolytic	1	Martindale's 28th
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.