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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
TRIDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-7-DIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 6.8 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TUSSILAGIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
TUSSILAGINE 1 Root 15.0 60.0 not available 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 not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-CIS-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-2-METHYL-BUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-CIS-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-4-CIS-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-4-CIS-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2,8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 31.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-2-METHYL-BUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 6.8 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-ENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 103.4 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-TRANS-4-DIENE-2,4-DIYN-1-OIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 298.5 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-CIS-2-TRANS-4-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 13.7 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-4-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root not available 10.3 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
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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
Antidermatic 2 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidermatitic 3 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidiabetic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antidiarrheic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiEBV 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiedemic 2 Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antielastase 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antiescherichic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifeedant 8 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Antifertility 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibrosarcomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *