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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Echinacea spp (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Coneflower; Echinacea
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
CICHORIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Root 6000.0 21000.0 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
COBALT 2 Root 148.0 2.67 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CYANADIN-3-O-(6-O-MALONYL-BETA-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Flower Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
CYANADIN-3-O-(BETA-D-GLYCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Flower Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
CYNARIN 23 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
DECA-(2E,4E,6E)-TRIENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
DES-RHAMNOSYLVERBASCOSIDE 0 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
DODECA-(2E,4E)-DIENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
DODECA-(2E,6Z,8E,10E)-TETRAENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDE 0 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
DODECA-2,4-DIEN-1-YL-ISOVALERATE 0 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
DODECA-2E,4E,8Z,10E/Z-TETRAENOIC-ACID-ISOBUTYLAMIDES 0 Shoot Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ECHINACEIN 3 Root 10.0 100.0 0.71 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
ECHINACIN 2 Root Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ECHINACOSIDE 10 Root 3000.0 17000.0 0.71 *
ECHINOLONE 2 Root Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
EO 0 Flower 600.0 6000.0 -0.22 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
EO 0 Leaf 100.0 6000.0 -0.49 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
EO 0 Root 50.0 40000.0 1.23 *
EPISHIOBUNOL 0 Fruit Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 253.
FAT 0 Root 13000.0 -0.33 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 22 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticancer 6 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Colon) 2 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 2 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 2 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.