Plant Elytrigia repens (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Couchgrass; Doggrass; Quackgrass; Wheatgrass; Twitchgrass

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
1-PHENYLHEXA-2,4-DIYNE-1-ONE	0	Rhizome	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.
AGROPYRENE	9	Rhizome	475.0	494.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Plant	not available	331.0	-0.10	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASH	0	Plant	61000.0	78000.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ALANINE	2	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CALCIUM	28	Plant	3000.0	9280.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	455000.0	797000.0	0.80	Duke, 1992 *
CARVACROL	37	Plant	not available	50.0	-0.86	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CARVACROL	37	Rhizome	not available	55.0	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CARVONE	19	Plant	not available	25.0	-0.43	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CARVONE	19	Rhizome	not available	27.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Plant	not available	37.0	2.59	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
COBALT	2	Plant	not available	18.0	0.11	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
EO	0	Rhizome	100.0	520.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
ERGOCORNINE	0	Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ERGOCRISTIN	0	Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ERGOCRISTININE	0	Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ERGOCRYPTINE	3	Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ERGOCRYPTININE	0	Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ERGOSINE	3	Symbiotic Ergot Sclerotia	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Taenicide	1	Martindale's 28th
Termiticide	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosteronigenic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Tracheorelaxant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Transdermal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide	6	Martindale's 29th
Ubiquiot	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Urinary-Antiseptic	1	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.
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Vasodilator	4	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vermicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vibriocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	1	Martindale's 28th