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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Echinacea pallida (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Echinacea; Pale-Flower Echinacea; Pale 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
UNDECA-2-TRANS-4-CIS-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
VERBASCOSIDE 20 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
VERBASCOSIDE 20 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
VERBASCOSIDE 20 Plant *
VERBASCOSIDE 20 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiotitic 3 *
Antioxidant 5 Huang, M-T., and Ferraro, T. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Cancer Prevention. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.2 p.21.
Antiperoxidant 2 *
Antipolio 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiproliferant 1 *
Antiprostaglandin 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 1 *
Antipyretic 2 *
Antiradicular 3 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antisalmonella 1 *
Antiseptic 3 *
Antispasmodic 3 *
Antistaph 2 *
Antistaphylococcic 2 *
Antistomatitic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antisunburn 4 *