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

Common Names

Horsetail; Scouring Rush

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
ACONITIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Plant	not available	0.1	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Root	not available	0.1	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	15500.0	0.20	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Plant	not available	4.0	-1.11	Duke, 1992 *
DIMETHYLSULFON	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GOSSYPETIN-3-BETA-D-...GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERBACETIN-3-BETA-D-...GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	not available	140.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	not available	1010.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	12.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Plant	not available	0.1	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	not available	14900.0	-0.48	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON-DIOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	not available	85.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Plant	not available	10.0	-0.42	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
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Hypoglycemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Immunomodulator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant	1	Martindale's 29th
Insectifuge	2	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinogenic	2	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Laxative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Leptingenic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Litholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *