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Common Names
Blue Cohosh
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Root | not available | 2950.0 | -0.92 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| LEONTIN | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| LINOLEIC-ACID | 27 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Root | 143.0 | 1300.0 | -0.67 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MAGNOFLORINE | 11 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MAGNOFLORINE | 11 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Root | 3.0 | 23.7 | -0.26 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANNOSE | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| N-METHYL-CYTISINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| N-METHYL-CYTISINE | 0 | Root | 132.0 | 909.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NIACIN | 39 | Root | 1.3 | 12.0 | -1.11 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Root | 1716.0 | 15600.0 | 2.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYTOSTEROLS | 2 | Root | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Root | 798.0 | 7250.0 | -0.62 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Root | 11330.0 | 103000.0 | -0.17 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RESIN | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Root | 1.0 | 7.9 | 0.84 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SAPONIN | 0 | Root | not available | 1000.0 | -1.08 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiestrogenic | 1 | 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 | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Antifertility | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antifibrinolytic | 3 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |
| Antifibromyalgic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrotic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifuruncular | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antigallstone | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastritic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigiardial | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 3 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiglycosuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antigonorrhea | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigout | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |