Plant Equisetum arvense (Equisetaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
THIAMINASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINASE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMINE	0	Plant	not available	0.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
THREONIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THYMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TIN	4	Plant	3.0	14.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	786000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ZINC	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antifatigue	6	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	8	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	3	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifumitory	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigargantitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *