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
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 *

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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
Antidementia	1	Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatitic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidermatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiarrheic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antidote	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antidysenteric	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiedemic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiemetic	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antienteritic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifeedant	9	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.
Antifertility	1	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *