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
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNAZIN	0	Plant	not available	1100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNESIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	25000.0	30000.0	0.86	Duke, 1992 *
SITOSTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIC-ACID	41	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	35000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL	18	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANIC-ACID	1	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
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 *