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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
Antibacillary 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 12 Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticancer 1 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 (Lung) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticatarrh 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticephalagic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticholinesterase 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlimacteric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th