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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Echinacea purpurea (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Echinacea; Eastern Purple-Coneflower; 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
PENTADECA-TRANS-2-CIS-9-DIENE-12,14-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot 8.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 198.0 790.0 -0.48 *
POLYSACCHARIDE 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
POLYSACCHARIDE-A 0 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
POLYSACCHARIDE-E 0 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
POLYSACCHARIDE-F 0 Tissue Culture Jim Duke's personal files.
POTASSIUM 14 Root 2031.0 8090.0 -0.56 *
PROTEIN 0 Root 23092.0 92000.0 -0.30 *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
QUERCETIN-7-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
RESIN 0 Root 5020.0 20000.0 -1.17 *
RHAMNOARABINOGALACTAN 0 Root Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
RHAMNOARABINOGALACTAN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Root 3.0 12.0 1.73 *
RUTIN 87 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
RUTOSIDE 4 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SELENIUM 60 Root 0.5 2.1 -0.21 *
SILICON 4 Root 8.0 30.1 -0.20 *
SODIUM 1 Root 23.0 90.0 -0.47 *
STARCH 5 Root 30120.0 120000.0 -0.82 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
COX-2-Inhibitor 2 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 1 *
Cytotoxic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Demulcent 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Detoxicant 1 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Diuretic 5 *
Emetic 1 *
Emmenagogue 1 Wealth of India.
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Ergogenic 1 *