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

Common Names

Common Smartweed

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
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNAZIN	0	Plant	not available	1100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	25000.0	30000.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID	41	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	35000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANIC-ACID	1	Plant	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
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	5	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 359.
Decongestant	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Demulcent	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	3	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Diaphoretic?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	1	Merck 11th Edition
Ecbolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Epileptigenic	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.
Estrogenic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	5	Martindale's 29th
FEMA	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry