Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Polygonum hydropiper (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Common Smartweed
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
QUERCETIN 176 Plant *
QUERCETIN-7-GLUCOSIDE 0 Plant *
QUERCITRIN 44 Plant *
RHAMNAZIN 0 Plant 1100.0 *
RHAMNESIN 0 Plant *
RUTIN 87 Leaf 25000.0 30000.0 0.86 *
SITOSTEROL 0 Plant *
TANNIC-ACID 41 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Plant 35000.0 -0.71 *
TERPINEOL 18 Essential Oil *
VALERIANIC-ACID 1 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cardiotonic 1 (View) *
Carminative 2 (View) Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Catabolic 2 (View) *
Chelator 1 (View) *
Chemopreventive 1 (View) *
Cholagogue 1 (View) *
Choleretic 4 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Depressant 1 (View) *
CNS-Stimulant 3 (View) *
CNS-Toxic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Coleoptophile 1 (View) *
COMT-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Convulsant 1 (View) R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Copper-Chelator 2 (View) *
Corrosive 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Cosmetic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 3 (View) Martindale's 28th
COX-2-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
Culicide 1 (View) *
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 1 (View) 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.