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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
ALPHA-CEDRENE 3 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PHELLANDRENE 11 Plant *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Essential Oil 10000.0 -0.47 *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Root Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Shoot 100.0 1000.0 -0.05 *
ALPHA-PROSTAGLANDIN-F-2 0 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ANETHOLE 36 Essential Oil *
ANETHOLE 36 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ANISALDEHYDE 7 Essential Oil *
ANISIC-ACID 6 Essential Oil *
ANISIC-ACID 6 Shoot 8.0 80.0 *
ANISIC-ALCOHOL 0 Essential Oil *
ANISIC-ALCOHOL 0 Shoot *
ANISOLE 4 Shoot 10.0 100.0 *
ANNAGENIN 0 Shoot *
APIGENIN 101 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ARGININE 14 Leaf *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 17 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.
Juvabional 6 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lactagogue 1 *
Larvicide 4 *
Larvistat 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 7 *
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leucocytogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 12 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 1 *
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.