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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,4-CINEOLE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ACETIC-ACID | 16 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ALPHA-PINENE | 28 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BALDRIANIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-PINENE | 13 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNEOL | 35 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORNYL-ACETATE | 12 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAMPHOR | 41 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAPRIONIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CARVONE | 19 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL | 3 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CONFERTIFLORIN | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CONFERTIFOLIN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ELLAGIC-ACID | 51 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FENCHONE | 6 | Essential Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FORMIC-ACID | 13 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FRUCTOSE | 8 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALLIC-ACID | 62 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Perfumery | 7 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Pesticide | 21 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PGE2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Piscicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Plasmodicide | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Preservative | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284. |
| Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor | 1 | Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14. |
| Protisticide | 3 | Martindale's 29th |
| Psychotropic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| PTK-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Quinone-Reductase-Inducer | 4 | Ahn, D., Putt, D., Kresty, L., Stoner, G. D., Fromm, D., Hollenberg, P. F. 1996. The Effects of Dietary Ellagic Acid on Rat Hepatic and Esophageal Mucosal Cytochromes P450 and Phase II Enzymes. Carcinogenesis, 17(4): 821-828. |
| Radioprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Respirainhibitor | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Respirastimulant | 1 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Rubefacient | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Secretolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |
| Sedative | 4 | Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC |