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Plant Glechoma hederacea (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Alehoof
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant not available not available not available Vadmecum Garcia, A.A., et al. 1998. Fitoterapia Vademecum de Prescripcioon. Masson, S. A. Barcelona, Espana. 1148 pp.
CHOLINE 20 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Plant 3.0 4.0 -0.49 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
CIS-OCIMENE 3 Plant 9.0 55.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Plant not available 11.0 -0.33 Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 2205.
COSMOSIIN 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYMAROSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYNAROSIDE 3 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DITERPENE-LACTONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
ELEMOL 2 Plant 1.0 3.0 -0.62 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
EO 0 Plant 100.0 600.0 -0.69 Duke, 1992 *
EPSILON-BULGARENE 0 Plant 2.0 11.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
EPSILON-MUUROLENE 0 Plant 1.0 6.0 not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-ELEMENE 0 Plant 1.0 7.0 -0.39 Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GERMACRENE-B 0 Plant 14.0 83.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Plant 20.0 116.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
GLECHOMAFURAN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLECHOMANOLIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLECHOMINE 0 Plant not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
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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
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 8 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 6 Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insect-Repellent 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 4 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 14 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 3 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 10 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.