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Common Names
Echinacea; Eastern Purple-Coneflower; Purple-Coneflower
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| 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 | not available | 8.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Root | 198.0 | 790.0 | -0.48 | Duke, 1992 * |
| POLYSACCHARIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| POLYSACCHARIDE-A | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| POLYSACCHARIDE-E | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| POLYSACCHARIDE-F | 0 | Tissue Culture | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| POTASSIUM | 14 | Root | 2031.0 | 8090.0 | -0.56 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Root | 23092.0 | 92000.0 | -0.30 | Duke, 1992 * |
| QUERCETIN | 176 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RHAMNOARABINOGALACTAN | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| RHAMNOARABINOGALACTAN | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Root | 3.0 | 12.0 | 1.73 | Duke, 1992 * |
| RUTIN | 87 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| RUTOSIDE | 4 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICON | 4 | Root | 8.0 | 30.1 | -0.20 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Root | 23.0 | 90.0 | -0.47 | Duke, 1992 * |
| STARCH | 5 | Root | 30120.0 | 120000.0 | -0.82 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Erythrocytogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Estrogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Estrogenic? | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Ethanolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 3 | 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. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Flatugenic | 1 | Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994. |
| FLavor | 4 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 6 | 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. |
| Gastroprotective | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastrostimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hemostat | 2 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Hepatomagenic | 2 | 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. |
| Hepatoprotective | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |