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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
AntiLegionella 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene-D4 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilymphocytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimelanogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antimenorrhagic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic 2 Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antimutagenic 6 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.
Antimyoatrophic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antinitrosaminic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive 3 Duke, 1992 *