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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Equisetum arvense (Equisetaceae)

Common Names
Field Horsetail; Horsetail
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
MALONIC-ACID 1 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
MANGANESE 14 Plant 1.5 6.9 -0.65 *
MANNITOL 18 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
N(1)-N(10)-CAFFEOYL-FERULOYL-SPERMIDINE 0 Pollen Or Spore Jim Duke's personal files.
NARINGENIN 56 Plant *
NIACIN 39 Plant 9.0 42.0 -0.49 *
NICOTINE 21 Plant 0.4 *
NICOTINE 21 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
NOR-BRASSINOLIDE 0 Strobilus Jim Duke's personal files.
NOR-CASTASTERONE 0 Strobilus Jim Duke's personal files.
OXALIC-ACID 9 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant *
PALUSTRINE 0 Plant *
PALUSTRINE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
PALUSTRININE 0 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PHENOLIC-ACIDS 0 Plant 5000.0 8000.0 *
PHOSPHORIC-ACID 4 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 407.0 1900.0 -0.81 *
POLYENIC-ACIDS 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anorectic 1 *
Anorexic 2 Martindale's 28th
ANS-Paralytic 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.
ANS-Stimulant 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.
Anthelmintic 2 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 1 *
Antiacne 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 *
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiaflatoxin 4 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 9 *
Antiaging 6 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.