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Common Names
Common Smartweed
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Fertility-Regulator | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FLavor | 8 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Floral-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Fungicide | 5 | Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp. |
| Fungistat | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Fungitoxic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(+)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Helicicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemopoietic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemostat | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemostatic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hepatomagenic | 2 | Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp. |
| Hepatoprotective | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotonic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hepatotoxic | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Herbicide | 4 | Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp. |
| HIV-RT-Inhibitor | 3 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224. |
| Hyperglycemic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |