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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALONIC-ACID | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Plant | 1.5 | 6.9 | -0.65 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANNITOL | 18 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| NARINGENIN | 56 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NIACIN | 39 | Plant | 9.0 | 42.0 | -0.49 | Duke, 1992 * |
| NICOTINE | 21 | Plant | not available | 0.4 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NICOTINE | 21 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| NOR-BRASSINOLIDE | 0 | Strobilus | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| NOR-CASTASTERONE | 0 | Strobilus | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| OXALIC-ACID | 9 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| P-COUMARIC-ACID | 25 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID | 13 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALUSTRINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALUSTRINE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PALUSTRININE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| PHENOLIC-ACIDS | 0 | Plant | 5000.0 | 8000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHOSPHORIC-ACID | 4 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| PHOSPHORUS | 4 | Plant | 407.0 | 1900.0 | -0.81 | Duke, 1992 * |
| POLYENIC-ACIDS | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| 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 * |