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Plant Artemisia herba-alba (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Desert Wormwood
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PATULETIN-3-0-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PATULETIN-3-RUTINOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant not available 1790.0 -0.86 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Plant not available 12400.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-RUTINOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE 5 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTOLINA-ALCOHOL 0 Plant not available 290.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTONIN 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SCHAFTOSIDE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Plant not available 250.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL 71 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TORRENTIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-PINOCARVEOL 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VICENIN-2 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
YOMOGI-ALCOHOL 0 Plant not available 174.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Plant 10.0 21.0 -0.31 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 *