Plant Artemisia herba-alba (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Desert Wormwood

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
GAMMA-ELEMENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-B	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-C	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-D	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-E	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-F	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-G	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-H	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBOLIDE-I	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	710.0	820.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSCHAFTOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOVITEXIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYRATOL	0	Plant	not available	348.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	not available	2060.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENAL	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-EICOSANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEPTADECANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTADECANE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Carminative	2	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.
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Choleretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Facciola, S. 1998. Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista CA. 713 pp.
CNS-Stimulant	3	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Toxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Coleoptophile	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	1	Martindale's 28th
Convulsant	2	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.
Copper-Antagonist	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
Cosmetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant	3	Martindale's 28th
Culicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclin-B1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclin-D1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Decongestant	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Degranulant	1	Duke, 1992 *