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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DODECA-2-TRANS-4-TRANS-10-TRANS-TRIEN-8-YNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
DODECA-2-TRANS-4-TRANS-8-CIS-10-CIS-TETRAENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
DODECA-2-TRANS-4-TRANS-8-CIS-10-TETRAENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
DODECA-2-TRANS-4-TRANS-8-CIS-TRIENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
DODECA-2-TRANS-4-TRANS-DIENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACEIN 3 Root 10.0 -1.41 Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACOSIDE 10 Flower *
ECHINACOSIDE 10 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ECHINACOSIDE 10 Root 4000.0 17000.0 0.71 *
EO 0 Flower 2800.0 -0.33 Jim Duke's personal files.
EO 0 Root 2000.0 23000.0 0.43 *
EO 0 Shoot 500.0 1000.0 -0.86 Jim Duke's personal files.
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.
HEPTADECA-(8Z,11Z)-DIEN-2-ONE 0 Root Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
HEXADECA-2-TRANS-9-CIS-DIENE-12,14-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 4 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID-C 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID-C 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID-C 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
KETO-ALKENES 0 Shoot *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cardioprotective 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Chemopreventive 1 *
Cholagogue 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Clastogenic 1 Friedman, M. and Dao, L. 1990. Effect of Autoclaving and Conventional and Microwave Baking on the Ergot Alkaloid and Chlorogenic Acid Contents of Morning Glory (Ipomoea tricolor Cav. cv.) Heavenly Blue Seeds. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 805-808.
CNS-Active 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Stimulant 2 *
CNS-Toxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Collagen-Sparing 3 *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytotoxic 1 *
Diuretic 1 *
Emetic 1 *
Estrogenic 1 *
Expectorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
FLavor 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 4 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Fungistat 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.