Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Polygonum hydropiper (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Common Smartweed
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GLUCOSE 7 Plant *
ISODRIMENINOL 0 Seed *
ISODRIMENOL 0 Plant *
ISOPOLYGODIAL 0 Seed *
ISORHAMNETIN 11 Plant *
ISOTADEONAL 0 Plant *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant *
MELISSIC-ACID 0 Plant *
MUCILAGE 3 Plant *
P-CYMOL 0 Essential Oil *
PERSICARIN 0 Plant *
PERSICARIN-7-METHYL-ETHER 0 Plant *
PHELLANDRENE 4 Essential Oil *
POLIGONONE 0 Essential Oil *
POLYGODIAL 6 Leaf *
POLYGONAL 0 Seed *
POLYGONOLIDE 2 Plant *
POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE 0 Plant 26000.0 0.93 *
POTASSIUM-NITRATE 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antidementia 1 (View) Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
Antidepressant 1 (View) *
Antidermatitic 2 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidermatotic 1 (View) *
Antidiabetic 3 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiarrheic 3 (View) *
Antidote 1 (View) Merck 11th Edition
Antidysenteric 3 (View) Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiedemic 3 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antielastase 1 (View) *
Antiemetic 1 (View) Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiencephalitic 2 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antienteritic 1 (View) Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antierythemic 1 (View) *
Antiescherichic 3 (View) *
Antiestrogenic 1 (View) *
Antifeedant 9 (View) 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 (View) 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 (View) Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 (View) *