Plant Polygala senega (Polygalaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Seneca Snakeroot; Senega

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
-D-GLUCITOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,5-ANHYDRO-(O-ALPHA-D-GALACTOPYRANOSYL-{1-2}-O-ALPHA-D-GALACTOPYRANOSYL-{1-2})	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-O-ALPHA-D-GALACTOPYRANOSYL-1,5-ANHYDRO-D-GLUCITOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4,5-TRIMETHOXYCINNAMIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIMETHOXYCINNAMIC-ACID	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-1,5-ANHYDRO-D-GLUCITOL	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-SPINASTEROL	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSYL-ALPHA-D-GALACTOSYL-D-GLUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOSENEGIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYDROXYSENEGIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNINOTRIOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANNOSE	3	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-SALICYLATE	21	Root	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MONOTROPITOSIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Root	not available	not available	not available	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
Diaphoretic?	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Flatugenic	2	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	6	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Hemolytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	1	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Herpetifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypocholesterolemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypoglycemic	2	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Hypolipidemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Insectifuge	2	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile	1	Duke, 1992 *