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Common Names
Echinacea; Narrow Leaf Echinacea; Narrow Leaf Purple-Coneflower
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DODECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE | 0 | Root | not available | 103.4 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINACEA-FACTOR-A | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINACEA-FACTOR-B | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINACEA-POLYSACCHARIDE | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINACEIN | 3 | Root | 4.0 | 100.0 | 0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ECHINACIN-B | 1 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINACOSIDE | 10 | Flower | 1000.0 | 10000.0 | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| ECHINACOSIDE | 10 | Root | 3000.0 | 13000.0 | -1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ECHINACOSIDE-1 | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINACOSIDE-2 | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ECHINOLONE | 2 | Root | not available | 3.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EO | 0 | Root | 400.0 | 13000.0 | -0.04 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FRUCTANS | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| GERMACRENE-D | 2 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| GLYCINE-BETAINE | 0 | Flower | not available | 8050.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| GLYCINE-BETAINE | 0 | Leaf | not available | 1130.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| GLYCINE-BETAINE | 0 | Root | not available | 3100.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| GLYCINE-BETAINE | 0 | Stem | not available | 4900.0 | -1.00 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| HEXADECA-2-TRANS-9-CIS-DIENE-12,14-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| HEXADECA-TRANS-2-CIS-9-DIENE-12,14-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE | 0 | Root | not available | 6.8 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Ethanolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Flatugenic | 1 | Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994. |
| FLavor | 5 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 5 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Fungistat | 1 | CIBA (Chadwick, D.J. and Marsh, J. 1990. Bioactive Compounds from Plants. CIBA Foundation Symposium 154. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester UK. 242 pp. |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp. |
| Gastrostimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hemostat | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Hepatomagenic | 1 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatoregenerative | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Hepatotonic | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Herbicide | 1 | Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp. |
| HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Histamine-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |