Plant Polygonum hydropiper (Polygonaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common Smartweed

How this plant is used

Medicinal

Download these results as:

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
GLUCOSE	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISODRIMENINOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISODRIMENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPOLYGODIAL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOTADEONAL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MELISSIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMOL	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERSICARIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PERSICARIN-7-METHYL-ETHER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHELLANDRENE	4	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLIGONONE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYGODIAL	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYGONAL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYGONOLIDE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE	0	Plant	not available	26000.0	0.93	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-NITRATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

Download these results as:

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
(-)-Chronotropic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
(-)-Inotropic	2	Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
5-HT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acaricide	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allergenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacetylcholine	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *