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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
DODECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-4-DIENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 103.4 Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACEA-FACTOR-A 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACEA-FACTOR-B 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACEA-POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACEIN 3 Root 4.0 100.0 0.71 *
ECHINACIN-B 1 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACOSIDE 10 Flower 1000.0 10000.0 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 *
ECHINACOSIDE-1 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACOSIDE-2 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINOLONE 2 Root 3.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
EO 0 Root 400.0 13000.0 -0.04 *
FRUCTANS 0 Root 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 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 8050.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
GLYCINE-BETAINE 0 Leaf 1130.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
GLYCINE-BETAINE 0 Root 3100.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
GLYCINE-BETAINE 0 Stem 4900.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXADECA-2-TRANS-9-CIS-DIENE-12,14-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
HEXADECA-TRANS-2-CIS-9-DIENE-12,14-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 6.8 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiviral 12 *
Antiyeast 1 *
Anxiolytic 1 *
Aphidifuge 1 *
Apoptotic 5 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 3 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide 2 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Atherogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Attifuge 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.
Autotoxic 1 *
Bacteristat 3 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 2 *
Bifidogenic 1 *
Bradycardiac 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchiphobe 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist 2 *
Calcium-Antagonist? 1 Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calmodulin-Antagonist 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor 2 *