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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Petasites hybridus (Asteraceae)

Common Names
European Butterbur
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
N-HENTRIACONTANE 3 Root *
N-HEPTACOSANE 0 Root *
N-HEPTADECANE 0 Root *
N-HEPTATRIACONTANE 0 Root *
N-HEXACOSANE 2 Root *
N-HEXADECANE 0 Root *
N-HEXATRIACONTANE 0 Root *
N-NONACOSANE 1 Root *
N-NONADECANE 0 Root *
N-NONENE 0 Flower *
N-OCTACOSANE 0 Root *
N-OCTADECANE 0 Root *
N-PENTACOSANE 0 Root *
N-PENTADECANE 0 Root *
N-PENTATRIACONTANE 0 Root *
N-TETRACOSANE 0 Root *
N-TETRATRIACONTANE 0 Root *
N-TRIACONTANE 0 Root *
N-TRICOSANE 0 Root *
N-TRITRIACONTANE 0 Root *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiaggregant 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 333.
Antiaging 1 *
Antiallergic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antialopecic 3 *
Antialzheimeran 2 *
Antianaphylactic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 1 *
Antiarrhythmic 1 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 407.
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 *
Antiarthritic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiasthmatic 2 *
Antiatheromic 1 Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic 1 *
Antibacterial 6 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Anticancer 1 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)