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
Myorelaxant	16	Martindale's 29th
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Narcotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	13	Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Nematistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nephroprotective	1	Toxicol Appl. Pharmacol. 1996.
Nephrotoxic	2	Martindale's 29th
Neurodepressant	1	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.
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neuropathogenic	1	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.
Neuroprotective	4	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	7	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.
Neurotransmitter	3	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *