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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Echinacea angustifolia (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Echinacea; Narrow Leaf Echinacea; Narrow Leaf Purple-Coneflower
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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
TRIDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-7-DIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 6.8 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TUSSILAGIN 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
TUSSILAGINE 1 Root 15.0 60.0 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
UNDECA-2-CIS-4-TRANS-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-CIS-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-2-METHYL-BUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-CIS-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-4-CIS-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-4-CIS-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2,8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 31.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-2-METHYL-BUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 6.8 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 103.4 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-TRANS-4-DIENE-2,4-DIYN-1-OIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 298.5 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-TRANS-4-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 13.7 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 10.3 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cancer-Preventive 12 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 4 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillariprotective 1 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 3 Hutchings, A, Scott, AH, Lewis, G, and Cunningham, A. 1996. Zulu
Medicinal Plants. An inventory. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg. 450 pp.
Cardioprotective 2 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 1 *
Chemopreventive 2 *
Chemopreventive (Breast Cancer) 1 *
Chemopreventive (Colon Cancer) 1 *
Cholagogue 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 8 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
Clastogenic 1 Friedman, M. and Dao, L. 1990. Effect of Autoclaving and Conventional and Microwave Baking on the Ergot Alkaloid and Chlorogenic Acid Contents of Morning Glory (Ipomoea tricolor Cav. cv.) Heavenly Blue Seeds. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 805-808.
CNS-Active 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant 1 *
CNS-Stimulant 2 *
CNS-Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Collagen-Sparing 4 *
Collyrium 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.