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Plant Galium odoratum (Rubiaceae)

Common Names
Waldmeister; Woodruff
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
ANTHRACENE-DERIVATIVES 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRAQUINONES 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ASPERULOSIDE 9 Plant not available 500.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN 57 Plant 7000.0 13000.0 2.41 Duke, 1992 *
EMULSIN 0 Plant 430000.0 450000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MONOTROPEIN 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NAPHTHALENE-DERIVATIVES 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID-AMIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUBRICHLORIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID 41 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 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
Antioxidant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant Synergist 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antipharyngitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipolio 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antipsittacotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antipsoriac 1 Pandeya, S.N. 1970. Biological Activity of Adamantyl Derivatives. The Indian Journal of Pharmacy, 33: 7.
Antiradicular 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.
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.
Antirhinitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antischizophrenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiseborrheic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic 3 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antistomatitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antithyrotoxic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitonsilitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitubercular 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antitumor (GI) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.