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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Elytrigia repens (Poaceae)

Common Names
Couchgrass, Doggrass, Quackgrass, Wheatgrass, Twitchgrass
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
ERGOTAMINE 7 Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia Wealth of India.
ERGOTAMININE 0 Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia Wealth of India.
ERGOTHIONENE 0 Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia 3600.0 Wealth of India.
FAT 0 Plant 15000.0 38000.0 -0.20 *
FAT 0 Rhizome 15000.0 -0.67 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
FAT 0 Seed 18000.0 121000.0 -0.76 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Plant 317000.0 339000.0 0.86 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Rhizome Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
INFUSION 0 Plant Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
INOSITOL 8 Rhizome 10000.0 30000.0 *
IRON 6 Plant 311.0 -0.37 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
LECTIN 0 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
LYSERGIC-ACID 1 Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia Wealth of India.
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant 7570.0 1.09 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MALIC-ACID 15 Rhizome List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MANGANESE 14 Plant 43.0 188.0 0.65 *
MANNITOL 18 Rhizome 10000.0 15000.0 *
MENTHOL 63 Plant 15.0 20.0 -0.62 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MENTHOL 63 Rhizome 18.0 1.00 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
MENTHONE 30 Plant 5.0 10.0 -0.51 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
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