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

Common Names

Purple Loosestrife

How this plant is used

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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
ANTHOCYANINS	30	Flower	not available	10000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYL-PHTHALATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-MONOGALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIBUTYL-PHTHALATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIISOBUTYL-PHTHALATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ELLAGIC-ACID	51	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOTANNINS	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYL-PHTHALATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LOLIOLIDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALVIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARCISSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ORIENTIN	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICARIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Flower	not available	137000.0	0.82	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Leaf	not available	120000.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	85000.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Hypocholesterolemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	3	Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	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.
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	3	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator	1	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
NO-Genic	1	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Scavenger	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	2	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Oviposition-Stimulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	8	Duke, 1992 *