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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
2,4-METHYLENE-CHOLESTEROL 0 Strobilus Jim Duke's personal files.
24-ALPHA-EHTYL-CHOLEST-5-EN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
24-ALPHA-METHYL-CHOLEST-5-EN-3-BETA-OL 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
3-METHOXY-PYRIDINE 0 Plant ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
4-HYDROXY-6-(2-HYDROXY-ETHYL)-2,2,5,7-TETRAMETHYL-INDANONE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
4-HYDROXY-6-(2-HYDROXY-ETHYL)-2,2,5,7-TETRAMETHYL-INDANONE 0 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
5-CAFFEOYL-SHIKIMIC-ACID 0 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
5-O-CAFFEOYLSHIKIMIC-ACID 1 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
6-CHLOROAPIGENIN 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
ACONITIC-ACID 1 Plant *
ALPHA-CAROTENE 7 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
ALUMINUM 5 Plant 81.0 378.0 -0.01 *
APIGENIN 101 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
APIGENIN-4'-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
APIGENIN-5-O-(6'-MALONYL-GLUCOSIDE) 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-5-O-(6'-O-MALONYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE) 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-5-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-5-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-5-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Stem Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidote (Mercury) 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paraquat) 1 Martindale's 28th
Antidysenteric 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antidysgeuzic 1 *
Antidyskinetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic 2 *
Antidyspeptic 1 *
Antidysphagic 1 *
AntiEBV 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antieczemic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antielastase 3 *
Antiencephalitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic 2 *
Antienteritic 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antienterotic 1 *
Antiepileptic 4 *
Antiescherichic 4 *
Antiestrogenic 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).