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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SUCROSE 14 Root 34000.0 -0.92 Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMINE 0 Root 0.7 2.6 -0.34 *
TIN 4 Root 4.3 17.0 0.05 *
TRIDEC-1-ENE-3-5-7-9-11-PENTAYNE 0 Flower 5000.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDEC-1-ENE-3-5-7-9-11-PENTAYNE 0 Root 1.7 12500.0 1.30 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDEC-1-ENE-3-5-7-9-11-PENTAYNE 0 Stem 100.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-1,3-DIENE-5,7,9,11-TETRAYNE 0 Root 100.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-1-11-DIENE-3-5-7-9-TETRAYNE 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-1-11-DIENE-3-5-7-9-TETRAYNE 0 Root 100.0 -0.55 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-2-TRANS-7-CIS-DIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-8,10,12-TRIENE-2,4,6-TRIYNE 0 Flower Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-8,10,12-TRIENE-2,4,6-TRIYNE 0 Root 200.0 300.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-7-DIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-(2-METHYL-BUTYL)-AMIDE 0 Shoot 1.2 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-7-DIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root 4.4 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-TRANS-2-CIS-7-DIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot 20.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
TRIDECA-TRANS-2-TRANS-6-CIS-8-TRIENE-10,12-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot 2.0 3.2 Jim Duke's personal files.
TUSSILAGIN 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
TUSSILAGINE 1 Root 15.0 60.0 *
UNDECA-2-CIS-4-TRANS-DIENE-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
UNDECA-2-TRANS-4-CIS-8,10-DIYNOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Estrogenic 2 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Ethanolytic 1 *
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 *
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 *
Gastrostimulant 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *
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 *
Hepatotoxic 1 *