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Plant 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.
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
CHICHORIC-ACID 0 Flower not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID 0 Stem not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Flower not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Stem not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER 0 Flower not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER 0 Stem not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHICORIC-ACID 10 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf 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.
CICHORIC-ACID 14 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.
CYNARIN 23 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DOCECA-2E,4E,8Z,10E/Z-TETRAENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDES 0 Root not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
DOCECA-2E,4E,8Z,10E/Z-TETRAENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDES 0 Shoot not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
DODECA-2,4,8,10-TETRAEN-1-OIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 298.5 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
DODECA-2,4-DIEN-1-YL-ISOVALERATE 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.
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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
Ovulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
P21-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 3 Merck 11th Edition
Pesticide 22 Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Pheromone 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prebiotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Preservative 1 Merck 11th Edition
Probiotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Probiotigenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Progestational 1 Duke, 1992 *