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Plant Bidens pilosa (Asteraceae)

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
1-PHENYL-HEPTA-1-3-5-TRIYNE 0 Plant not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
2-O-CAFFEOYL-2-C-METHYL-D-ERYTHRONIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available 7.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
3-O-CAFFEOYL-2-C-METHYL-D-ERYTHRONO-1-4-LACTONE 0 Leaf not available 15.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
7-PHENYL-HEPTA-2-4-6-TRIYNE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-CADINOL 3 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 110000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Plant not available 307.5 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 730000.0 3.94 Jim Duke's personal files.
BORNEOL 35 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 20000.0 -0.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
CAPRIC-ACID 3 Plant not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
DAUCOSTEROL 5 Plant not available 450.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ELAIDIC-ACID 2 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ESCULETIN 30 Plant not available 300.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FRIEDELAN-3-BETA-OL 2 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
FRIEDELIN 2 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
GERMACRENE-D 2 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 730000.0 1.73 Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Leaf not available 12.0 -0.46 Jim Duke's personal files.
L-INOSITOL 0 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
LAURIC-ACID 7 Plant not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
LIMONENE 60 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 100000.0 -0.24 Jim Duke's personal files.
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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
Hypertensive 1 Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
Hypocholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypoglycemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 158.
Hypotensive 2 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Immunomodulator 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insect-Repellent 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Irritant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Larvicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
Mosquitocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Musculotropic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.