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
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ATEMITIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-DIACETYLENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-DIACETYLENE	0	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	2.0	74.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-MYRCENE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE	3	Shoot	100.0	1070.0	4.04	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-PINENE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE	13	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIOQUERCETIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	7640.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	11390.0	12340.0	-0.13	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CAMPESTEROL	2	Shoot	not available	30.0	1.00	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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).