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Common Names
Blue Flag
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FURFURAL | 6 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FURFUROL | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GUM | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| HEPTACOSAN | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| IPURANOL | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| IRIDIN | 10 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOPHTHALIC-ACID | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LAURIC-ACID | 7 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRICYL-ALCOHOL | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PALMITIC-ACID | 13 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHYTOSTEROLS | 2 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RESIN | 0 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLIC-ACID | 34 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STARCH | 5 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| STEARIC-ACID | 8 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TANNIN | 35 | Rhizome | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Emollient | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| FLavor | 3 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotonic | 1 | Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus. |
| Hypercholesterolemic | 2 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 2 | Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.) |
| Hypoglycemic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 158. |
| Immunosuppressant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insecticide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insectifuge | 1 | Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994. |
| Irritant | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Keratolytic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Laxative | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lubricant | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| MAO-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Nematicide | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |