Plant Macleaya cordata (Papaveraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Plume Poppy

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
ALLOCRYPTOPINE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BERBERINE	130	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BOCCONINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BOCCONOLINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELILUTINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHELIRUBINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPTISINE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRYPTOPINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROCHEILANTHIFOLINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHOXYCHELERYTHRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHOXYSANGUINARINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HELERITRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HOMOCHELIDONINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MACARPINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYSANGUINARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPINE	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPINE-N-OXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANGUINARINE	48	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Respiradepressant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respirastimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
RNA-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
RT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sialogogue	1	Duke, 1992 *
Soporific	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spasmogenic	1	Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Stomachic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sympatholytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Kobayashi, Y, Yamashita, Y., Fujii, N., Takaboshi, K., Kawakami, T., Kawamura, M., Mizukami, T., Nakano, H. 1995. Inhibitors of DNA Topoisomerase I and II Isolated From the Coptis Rhizomes. Planta Medica, 61: 414-418.
Trichomonicide	2	Martindale's 29th
Trypanocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterocontractant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uterotonic	3	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Vagostimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasomotor-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *