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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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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
RUTIN 87 Plant *
SELENIUM 60 Plant 0.1 0.5 -0.41 *
SILICON 4 Plant 5.0 30.3 -0.36 *
SODIUM 1 Plant *
STIGMASTEROL 12 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Shoot Jim Duke's personal files.
TANNINS 0 Plant 124000.0 0.02 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
THIAMIN 31 Plant 4.3 -0.28 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE 0 Plant 0.7 4.3 -0.33 *
TIN 4 Plant 1.2 8.0 -0.87 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
WATER 0 Plant 846000.0 0.32 *
ZINC 77 Plant 0.5 3.5 -0.48 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatic 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antirhinoviral 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 197.
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseptic 6 Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling 1 Planta Medica, 56(6): 681, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 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
Antispasmodic 11 *
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 4 *
Antisteatotic 1 *
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antistress 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 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