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Plant Polygonum multiflorum (Polygonaceae)

Common Names

Chinese Cornbind, Fleeceflower, Fo Ti, He Shou Wu, Chinese Knotweed

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
RHEIN	18	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Root	not available	0.9	-0.69	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SCOPOLETIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Root	not available	74.0	4.90	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILICON	4	Root	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SODIUM	1	Rhizome	not available	117.0	-0.49	Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
SODIUM	1	Root	not available	42.0	-0.49	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
STARCH	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
STILBENE-GLYCOSIDE-GALLATES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	0.1	-0.58	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
TIN	4	Root	not available	13.0	-0.35	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
TRICIN	9	Tuber	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	not available	800000.0	0.20	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ZINC	77	Plant	not available	24.5	-0.27	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ZINC	77	Rhizome	not available	8.0	-0.45	Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
ZINC	77	Root	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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