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.
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
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
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
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.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	1	Yannai, S., Day, A. J., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1998. Characterization of Flavonoids as Monofunctional or Bifunctional Inducers of Quinone Reductase in Murine Hepatoma Cell Lines. Food Chem Toxicol, 36(8): 623-630.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	1	Martindale's 28th
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	1	Bernard, F. X., Sable, S., Cameron, B., Provost, J., Desnottes, J. F., Crouzet, J., Blanche, F. 1997. Glycosylated Flavones as Selective Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IV. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy, 41: 992-998.
Vasodilator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *