Plant Conyza canadensis (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Butterweed; Hogweed; Horseweed

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
ALPHA-SPINOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRAL	53	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRONELLAL	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
D-LIMONENE	19	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIPENTENE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DL-TERPINEOL	0	Plant	437.0	673.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	2600.0	6000.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MATRICARIA-METHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	520.0	1200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID	41	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINYL-ACETATE	5	Plant	154.0	238.0	0.85	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	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
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bronchodilator	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchorelaxant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	2	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Cancer-Preventive	9	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	3	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Carcinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-3-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Caspase-8-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Co-carcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagen-Sparing	1	Duke, 1992 *