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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CALCIUM | 28 | Root | 826.0 | 3290.0 | -0.45 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CARYOPHYLLENE | 31 | Shoot | 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. |
| CARYOPHYLLENE-EPOXIDE | 6 | Shoot | 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. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID | 0 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-DIMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHICHORIC-ACID-MONOMETHYL-ETHER | 0 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CHROMIUM | 24 | Root | 0.5 | 1.9 | -0.18 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CICHORIC-ACID | 14 | Flower | 12000.0 | 31000.0 | not available | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| CICHORIC-ACID | 14 | Root | 123.0 | 21000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CICHORIC-ACID | 14 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CICHORIENIC-ACID | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| P450-Inhibitor | 1 | Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations. |
| PAF-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Perfumery | 3 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Pesticide | 19 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PGE2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phagocytotic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pheromone | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pigment | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Plasmodicide | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Poultice | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Prebiotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Preservative | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Probiotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Probiotigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Sparer | 1 | Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990. |