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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
ISOPETASIN 5 Root *
ISOPETASOL 0 Leaf Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
ISOPETASOSIDE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOPETASYL-ESTER-ISOBUTYRATE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Leaf Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
LAURIC-ACID 7 Root *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Root *
MARGARINIC-ACID 0 Root *
METHACRYLOYL-ESTER-NEOPETASOL 0 Plant *
METHACRYLOYLISOPETASOL 0 Leaf Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
METHACRYLOYLNEOPETASOL 0 Leaf Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
METHACRYLOYLNEOPETASYL-ESTER 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
METHACRYLOYLPETASOL 0 Root *
METHYLACRYLNEOPETASYL-ESTER 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
METHYLMERCAPTOACRYLIC-ACID 0 Rhizome List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Root *
N-DOCOSANE 0 Root *
N-DOTRIACONTANE 0 Root *
N-EICOSANE 0 Root *
N-HENEICOSANE 0 Root *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticariogenic 1 *
Anticataract 1 *
Antichoreic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 1 *
Anticlastogen 1 *
Anticolitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticolitic? 1 *
Anticomplementary 1 *
Anticoronary 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiCrohn's 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticystinuric 1 *
Anticystitic 1 *
Antidementia 1 *
Antidepressant 1 *
Antidermatitic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidiabetic 4 *
Antidiarrheic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antidyskinetic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antieczemic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiedemic 1 *