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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Astragalus membranaceus (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Huang-Chi; Huang Qi
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ASTRAGALOSIDE-VI 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ASTRAGALOSIDE-VII 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ASTRAGALUS-SAPONIN-I 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASTRAGALUS-SAPONIN-II 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASTRAGALUS-SAPONIN-III 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASTRAISOFLAVAN 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ASTRAMEMBRANAGENIN 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ASTRAMEMBRANIN-I 3 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASTRAMEMBRANIN-II 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ASTRAPTEROCARPAN 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
ASTRASIEVERSIANIN-I-XVI 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Root *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
BETAINE 14 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CALCIUM 28 Root 560.0 3500.0 -0.43 *
CALYCOSIN 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CANAVANINE 14 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CHOLINE 20 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anorexic 2 Martindale's 28th
Antiacne 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaflatoxin 2 *
AntiAGE 2 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
Antiaggregant 9 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 5 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 3 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 7 *
Antialopecic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 5 *
Antiamblyopic 1 *
Antianaphylactic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 4 *