Common Names
Blue Cohosh
How this plant is used
Medicinal
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SELENIUM | 60 | Root | 0.4 | 3.5 | -0.11 | Duke, 1992 * |
SILICON | 4 | Root | 0.7 | 6.3 | -0.31 | Duke, 1992 * |
SODIUM | 1 | Root | 3.2 | 29.0 | -0.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
STARCH | 5 | Root | 15400.0 | 140000.0 | -0.74 | Duke, 1992 * |
STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
STIGMASTEROL | 12 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
THIAMIN | 31 | Root | not available | 9.3 | 0.23 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
THIAMINE | 0 | Root | 1.0 | 9.3 | 1.02 | Duke, 1992 * |
TIN | 4 | Root | 2.3 | 21.0 | 0.46 | Duke, 1992 * |
WATER | 0 | Root | not available | 890000.0 | 0.79 | Duke, 1992 * |
XYLOSE | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
ZINC | 77 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
---|---|---|
Soap | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Spermicide | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
Spermigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Stomachic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Suppository | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Tachycardic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Taenicide | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
Teratogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Testosteronigenic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
Thymoprotective | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor | 1 | Kobayashi, Y, Yamashita, Y., Fujii, N., Takaboshi, K., Kawakami, T., Kawamura, M., Mizukami, T., Nakano, H. 1995. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I and II Isolated From the Coptis Rhizomes. Planta Medica, 61: 414-418. |
Toxic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
Tranquilizer | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Trichomonicide | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
Trypanocide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Ubiquiot | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Ulcerogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Uricosuric | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
Urinary-Acidulant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Uterocontractant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |