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Plant 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
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.
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List of plant activities.
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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 *