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
ESCULETIN	30	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ESCULETIN-DIMETHYL-ETHER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESCULETIN-DIMETHYL-ETHER	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ESTRAGOLE	12	Essential Oil	100000.0	776300.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	690000.0	0.31	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	650000.0	1.23	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Shoot	100.0	8100.0	1.37	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGOLE	12	Shoot Essent. Oil	750000.0	814000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTRAGONOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	8.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	5	Essential Oil	not available	5300.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	5	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL-METHYL-ETHER	5	Shoot Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	not available	381000.0	0.61	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FAT	0	Shoot	72000.0	78000.0	0.59	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	3	Martindale's 28th
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibrucellosic	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.
Anticancer	12	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Kidney)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	4	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).