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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sialogogue | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Spasmogenic | 3 | Fitoterapia No.59-1984. |
| Spermicide | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Stimulant | 1 | 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. |
| Styptic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Sunscreen | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Sweetener | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Teratologic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| TNF-alpha-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist | 1 | Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999. |
| Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor | 3 | Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237. |
| Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor | 3 | Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225. |
| Toxic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Tranquilizer | 2 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90. |
| Transdermal | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Trichomonicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tumor-Promoter | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tumorigenic | 1 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Tyrosinase-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170. |