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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Euphrasia officinalis (Scrophulariaceae)

Common Names
Eyebright
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
6-HYDROXYPHENYLPYRUVIC-ACID 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Plant 15.3 99.0 -0.56 *
APIGENIN 101 Plant *
APIGENIN-7-RHAMNOGALACTOSIDE 0 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
APIGENIN-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ARABINOSE 0 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Plant 10.0 67.0 -0.58 *
ASH 0 Plant 19404.0 126000.0 0.09 *
AUCUBIN 20 Plant 500.0 0.00 *
AUCUBIN 20 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Plant 11.0 73.0 -0.33 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant 11500.0 0.73 Tyler, V.E.. 1982. The Honest Herbal. George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia PA. 263 pp.
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Shoot 6000.0 1.71 Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM 28 Plant 1771.0 11500.0 -0.22 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 113652.0 738000.0 0.42 *
CATALPOL 3 Plant *
CERYL-ALCOHOL 0 Plant *
CHOLINE 20 Plant Tyler, V.E.. 1982. The Honest Herbal. George F. Stickley Co., Philadelphia PA. 263 pp.
CHROMIUM 24 Plant 0.1 0.7 -0.80 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipodriac 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipolio 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antipoliomyelitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 7 *
Antiprostaglandin 2 *
Antiprostanoid 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 3 *
Antiproteolytic 1 *
Antiprotozoal 1 *
Antipsoriac 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipurpuric 1 *
Antipyretic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 12 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretinopathic 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