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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Antifibrosarcomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrositic | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Antiflu | 4 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195. |
| Antigargantitic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastric | 1 | Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85. |
| Antigingivitic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 1 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antigonadotropic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| AntiGTF | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihangover | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihematuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemorrhagic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Antihemorrhoidal | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antihepatotoxic | 6 | Okuda, T., Yoshida, T., and Hatano, T. Antioxidant Effects of Tannins and Related Polyphenols. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.7 p.93. |
| Antiherpetic | 6 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihistaminic | 4 | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
| AntiHIV | 5 | Tan, G.T., Pezzuto, J.M., Kinghorn,* A.D., Hughes, S.H. Evaluation Of Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) Reverse Transcriptase. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 143-154, 1991. |
| Antihydrophobic | 1 | Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart. |
| Antihypertensive | 3 | Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp. |
| Antihyperthyroid | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |