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Common Names
Field Horsetail; Horsetail
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE | 0 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| QUERCITRIN | 44 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| QUINIC-ACID | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| RHODOXANTHIN | 1 | Plant | not available | 1.8 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RIBOFLAVIN | 15 | Plant | 0.4 | 1.9 | -0.66 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SELENIUM | 60 | Plant | 0.3 | 1.3 | -0.37 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SHIKIMIC-ACID | 14 | Plant | 63.0 | 630.0 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| SILICA | 0 | Plant | 50000.0 | 97000.0 | 0.53 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICA | 0 | Shoot | not available | 78000.0 | 1.12 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| SILICIC-ACID | 1 | Plant | 50000.0 | 80000.0 | 1.35 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SILICON | 4 | Plant | 8.3 | 38.6 | -0.31 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Plant | 120.0 | 560.0 | -0.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SPERMIDINE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| TANNIC-ACID | 41 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| TAXIFOLIN | 17 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| THIAMIN | 31 | Plant | not available | 0.0 | -0.65 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antiallergic | 8 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antialopecic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antialzheimeran | 6 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiamblyopic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiamnesic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiamyloid-Beta | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianacarditic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianaphylactic | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiandrogenic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antianemic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianginal | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiangiogenic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antianorectic | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antianorexic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antianxiety | 2 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiaphthic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiarabiflavinotic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiarrhythmic | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiarteriosclerotic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antiarthritic | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |