Plant Mercurialis annua (Euphorbiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Annual Mercury

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
CYANOGENIC-GLUCOSIDES	0	Juice	not available	13500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Root	not available	800.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-AMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Root	not available	1200.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HERMIDINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOAMYL-AMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBUTYL-AMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALTOSE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURIALIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-AMINE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Root	not available	28000.0	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *
NARCISSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROPYLAMINE	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Root	18000.0	22500.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
SIO2	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	33500.0	-1.34	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
Antidermatitic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidiabetic	3	Jin, G-Z., Yamagata, Y., and Tomita, K.-i. 1989. Structure of Rutin Pentamethanol. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(2): 297-300, 1990.
Antidiarrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysenteric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotoxic	3	Merck 11th Edition
Antiherpetic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 198.
Antihistaminic	2	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.
AntiHIV	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypertensive	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiinflammatory	2	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.
Antiketotic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	1	Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary*, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.