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Common Names
Brigham Tea; Mormon Tea
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (+)-NEOPSEUDOEPHEDRINE? | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Plant | 4500.0 | 58100.0 | 4.76 | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPHEDRINE | 49 | Branches | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPHEDRINE | 49 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| EPHEDRINE | 49 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| EPHEDRINE | 49 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LUCENIN-2 | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Plant | not available | 5000.0 | 0.68 | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Plant | not available | 50000.0 | -1.01 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| RESIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| TANNIN | 35 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VICENIN-2 | 12 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Osteogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Oviposition-Stimulant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Pesticide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Psychotropic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| Radioprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Respirastimulant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Stimulant | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Sympathomimetic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Tachycardic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Tracheorelaxant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tranquilizer | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Uterocontractant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Vasoconstrictor | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Vasodilator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |