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Plant Marrubium vulgare (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Horehound; White Horehound
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
LUTEOLIN 78 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN 78 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-88.
LUTEOLIN 78 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-(2-GLUCOSYL-LACTATE) 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-(2-GLUCURONOSYL-LACTATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-88.
LUTEOLIN-7-LACTATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-LACTATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LUTEOLIN-7-O-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBENOL 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
MARRUBIIN 8 Flower 9000.0 10000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBIIN 8 Leaf not available 7800.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBIIN 8 Plant 1000.0 10000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBIIN 8 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBIIN 8 Shoot 1252.9 6300.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBIINIC-ACID 1 Plant not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
MARRUBINE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MARRUBIOL 0 Plant not available not available not available 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.
MARRUBIOL 0 Shoot not available 130.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE 3 Plant 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
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide 1 Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor 4 Duke, 1992 *
AChE-Inhibitor 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Acidulant 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 11 Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Allelochemic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic 2 Kouzi, S.A., and McChesney*, J.D. Microbial Models Of Mammalian Metabolism: Fungal Metabolism Of The Diterpene Sclareol By Cunninghamella Species. Journal of Natural Products, 54(2): 483-490, 1991.
Allergenic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 1 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholinesterase 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiADD 1 Duke, 1992 *