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
O-CRESOL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
OCIMENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCIMENE	2	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
P-CRESOL	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
P-CYMENE	16	Essential Oil	not available	24700.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Leaf	not available	14.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYCOUMARIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	4.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-1,8-DIENE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-MENTHA-1,8-DIENE	0	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	5000.0	45000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Seed	45.0	450.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	45000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Shoot	5.0	450.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMALDEHYDE	2	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	6000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-METHOXYCINNAMYL-ALCOHOL	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
Hypoglycemic	10	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	16	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	5	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	8	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	13	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	6	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-attractant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	13	Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge	22	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile	4	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Insulin-Sparing	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).