Plant Lythrum salicaria (Lythraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Purple Loosestrife

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
TANNIN	35	Stem	not available	105000.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
VITEXIN	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiatherosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	6	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibradiquinic	1	Fitoterapia No.61: 277, 1990.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (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.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Mouth)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Skin)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticataract	1	Shimizu, M., Horie, S., Terashima, S., Ueno, H., et al. 1989. Studies on Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Natural Products.II. Active Components of a Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Para-parai mi,' Phyllanthus niruri. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 37(9): 2531-2532, 1989.
Anticlastogen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticollegenase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	3	Duke, 1992 *