Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCETIN-3-O-SOPHOROSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
QUERCITRIN 44 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
QUINIC-ACID 1 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
RHODOXANTHIN 1 Plant 1.8 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Plant 0.4 1.9 -0.66 *
SELENIUM 60 Plant 0.3 1.3 -0.37 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID 14 Plant 63.0 630.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
SILICA 0 Plant 50000.0 97000.0 0.53 *
SILICA 0 Shoot 78000.0 1.12 Jim Duke's personal files.
SILICIC-ACID 1 Plant 50000.0 80000.0 1.35 *
SILICON 4 Plant 8.3 38.6 -0.31 *
SODIUM 1 Plant 120.0 560.0 -0.27 *
SPERMIDINE 1 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
TANNIC-ACID 41 Plant CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TAXIFOLIN 17 Plant Jim Duke's personal files.
THIAMIN 31 Plant 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
Antihyperkeratotic 1 (View) *
Antihyperkinetic 2 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive 6 (View) *
Antihyperthyroid 2 (View) *
Antihypoglycemic 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiimplantation 1 (View) *
Antiimpotence 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antiinfective 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility 2 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory 19 (View) *
Antiinsomniac 3 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic 1 (View) Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiischemic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antikeratitic 1 (View) *
Antikeshan 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiLegionella 3 (View) *
Antileishmanic 3 (View) *
Antilepric 2 (View) Martindale's 28th