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
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 *

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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 *