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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
POPULNIN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
POTASIUM-CHLORIDE 0 Plant 15000.0 -1.00 *
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 3338.0 15600.0 -0.43 *
POTASSIUM 14 Shoot 27000.0 0.22 Jim Duke's personal files.
POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE 0 Plant 15000.0 -1.39 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PROTEIN 0 Plant 24396.0 114000.0 -0.49 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PROTOGENKWANIN 0 Sprout Seedling 453.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
PROTOGENKWANIN-4''-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
PROTOGENKWANIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PROTOGENKWANIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
PROTOGENKWANIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN 176 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN 176 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE 2 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
QUERCETIN-3,7-O-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3-O-(6'-O-MALONYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Plant *
QUERCETIN-3-O-(6'-O-MALONYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3-O-(6'-O-MALONYL-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiasthmatic 7 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic 2 *
Antiatherosclerotic 9 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 24 Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 10 *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *
Anticancer (Colon) 2 *
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 3 *
Anticancer (Lung) 3 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Skin) 3 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).