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

Plant Polygonum hydropiperoides (Polygonaceae)

Common Names
Mild Water Pepper
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
GALLIC-ACID 62 Plant *
ISORHAMNETIN 11 Plant *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant *
MALIC-ACID 15 Plant *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Plant *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant *
P-HYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID 1 Plant *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Plant *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Plant *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Carcinogenic 4 (View) *
Cardioprotective 1 (View) *
Catabolic 1 (View) *
Chemopreventive 1 (View) *
Choleretic 3 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Paralytic 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COMT-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Copper-Chelator 2 (View) *
COX-2-Inhibitor 2 (View) *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 3 (View) *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 (View) *
Cytotoxic 3 (View) Matsukawa, Y., et al. The Effect of Quercetin and Other Flavonoids on Cell Cycle Progresssion and Growth of Human Gastric Cancer Cells. Planta Medica, 56(6): 677, 1990.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 (View) Jim Duke's personal files.
Diaphoretic? 2 (View) Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 (View) *
Diuretic 1 (View) *
Estrogenic 2 (View) Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Fatal 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
FLavor 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 (View) Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.