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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	3	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210.
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypocholesterolemic	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hypotensive	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Immunomodulator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	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	2	Duke, 1992 *
Memory-Enhancer	1	Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Mutagenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.