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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

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALUMINUM 5 Flower not available 27.0 -1.25 Duke, 1992 *
ANTHEMIC-ACID 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ANTHEMOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN 101 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-APIOSYLGLUCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-GLUCOSIDE-(2',3')-DIACETATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
APIGETRIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
APIIN 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Flower not available 267.0 -0.75 Duke, 1992 *
ASH 0 Flower not available 62000.0 -0.15 Duke, 1992 *
AZULENE 10 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BISABOLENE 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BOURBONENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Flower not available 2.2 -0.59 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-COPAENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CUBEBENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-DAMASCENONE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-MYRCENE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Photoactive 2 Duke, 1992 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phytoalexin 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phytohormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PKC-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Progestational 1 Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant 3 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Xu, L. N., Yu, W. G., Tian, J. Y., Liu, Q. Y. 1990. Effect of Sodium Ferulate on Arachidonic Acid Metabolism. Yao Hsueh Hsueh Pao, 25(6): 412-416.
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic 1 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 1 Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *