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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
CHROMIUM 24 Root 0.3 0.8 -0.40 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
COBALT 2 Root 0.4 2.5 -0.49 *
COPPER 12 Root 1.0 9.0 -0.30 *
COUMARIN 57 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYCLOGALEGINOSIDE-A 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CYCLOGALEGINOSIDE-B 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
D-FRUCTOSE 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
D-GLUCOSE 1 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
FAT 0 Root 3200.0 20000.0 -0.10 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Root 200000.0 2.62 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Root 600000.0 2.20 *
FOLIC-ACID 23 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
FORMONONETIN 16 Root *
FREE-AMINO-ACIDS 0 Root 5000.0 12600.0 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GABA 22 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
GUM 0 Root 16000.0 100000.0 -0.26 *
IRON 6 Root 3.2 20.0 -0.41 *
ISOASTRAGALOSIDE-I 0 Root Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiescherichic 2 *
Antiesherichic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiestrogenic 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 5 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 *
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigenotoxic 1 *
Antigingivitic 4 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.