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
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-THUJONE	5	Plant	580.0	773.0	0.46	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Plant	not available	319.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADALENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALACORENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALAMENENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPHOR	41	Plant	580.0	773.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Plant	not available	244300.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	899.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINEOLE	0	Plant	not available	194.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Plant	7.0	14.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
CUMINALDEHYDE	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEACETYLHERBOLIDE-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROREYNOSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSANTAMARIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROXYGERMACRANDIENOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	not available	2900.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE	0	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
Antiepileptic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	5	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrositic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antihalitosic	2	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihelicobacter	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *