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Common Names
Shining Clubmoss
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LYCOPODIUM-ALKALOID-L-25 | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LYCOXANTHOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 12.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NICOTINE | 21 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHLEGMANOL-A | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PHLEGMANOL-E | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| PSEUDOSELAGINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERRATENEDIOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 73.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERRATENEDIOL-3-ACETATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SERRATRIOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SPIROLUCIDINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOHOGENINOL | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| TOHOGENOL | 0 | Plant | not available | 37.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antihyperlipoproteinaemic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antiinflammatory | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antileukemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antilymphomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimutagenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiophidic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363. |
| Antioxidant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprogestational | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiprostaglandin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipyretic | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Antitumor (Breast) | 1 | Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103. |
| Antitumor (Cervix) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antitumor (Lung) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiviral | 1 | Abid Ali Khan, M.M., Jain, D.C., Bhakuni, R.S., Zaim, M., and Thakur, R.S. 1991. Occurrence of some antiviral sterols in Artemisia annua. Plant Science, 75: 161-165, 1991. |
| Apoptotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Artemicide | 1 | Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990. |
| Cancer-Preventive | 1 | Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp. |
| Candidicide | 1 | Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155. |