Plant Inula helenium (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Elecampane

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
IRON	6	Root	0.9	4.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
ISOALANTOLACTONE	13	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOALANTOLACTONE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOALANTOLACTONE	13	Rhizome	9900.0	19400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOALANTOLACTONE	13	Root	1305.0	5215.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOALANTOLACTONE	13	Root Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOALANTOLACTONE	13	Shoot	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	1650.0	7500.0	2.63	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	0.2	0.8	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	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.
NIACIN	39	Root	15.0	70.0	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NONACOSAN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PECTINS	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	330.0	1500.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOMELANE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
POTASSIUM	14	Root	2222.0	10100.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiacrodynic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadrenalinic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiadrenergic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE	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
Antiaggregant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic	3	Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic	5	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Antialopecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiamebic	2	Abstract (See species file)
Antianaphylactic	1	Meli, R., Autore, G., Di Carlo, G., Capasso, F. Inhibitory Action of Quercetin on Intestinal Transit in Mice. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 201, 1990.
Antiandrogenic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *