Plant Euphorbia hirta (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Queensland Asthma Herb

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUPHORBOL-HEXOCOSONATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	not available	17100.0	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDALIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID	62	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUM	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONTANE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INGENOL-TRIACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
INOSITOL	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JAMBULOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-GLUCURONIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
L-HEXACOSANOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDOL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MELISSIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL	0	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
Antibacterial	12	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antibronchitic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Mouth)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticapillary-Fragility	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	1	Duke, 1992 *