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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Petasites hybridus (Asteraceae)

Common Names
European Butterbur
How this plant is used
Medicinal
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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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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 3 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
NEP-Inhibitor 1 *
Nephrotoxic 1 *
Neuroprotective 1 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 1 *
NO-Inhibitor 1 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ovulant 1 *
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
Parasympathomimetic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfume 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Perfumery 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic 1 *
Pesticide 8 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *