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Plant Chamaemelum nobile (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Garden Camomile; Perennial Camomile; Roman Camomile
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
EUCANNABINOLIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FARNESENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FARNESOL 17 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Flower not available 39000.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Flower not available 72000.0 -0.73 Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HERNIARIN 12 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-ACETATE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXYL-BUTYRATE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HUMULENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYISONOBILIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL 8 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Flower not available 170.0 0.01 Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-2-METHYL-BUTYRATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-ANGELATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-BUTYRATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-PROPIONATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTANOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYL-2-METHYL-BUTYRATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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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
Antimaculitic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 5 Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary**, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum*. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimanic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimeasles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antimelanogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic 5 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's 1 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine 4 Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 12 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyalgic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimyocarditic 1 Duke, 1992 *