Plant Polypodium vulgare (Polypodiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Common Polypody; Sweet Fern

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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
(+)-CATECHIN-7-L-ARABINOSIDE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
17,21-EPOXYHOPANE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
20-HYDROXYECDYSONE	4	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
22-HOPENE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
24-LOPHENOLMETHYLENE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
26-O-METHYLPOLYPODOSAPONIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
31-NORCYCLOARTANOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
31-NORCYCLOLAUDENOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
5-BETA-20-HYDROXYECDYSTERONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
9(11)-FERNENE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYRIC-ACID	6	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAOUTCHOUC	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHINS	1	Rhizome	25000.0	37000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITROSTADIENOL	1	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRUSECDYSONE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTANOL	0	Rhizome	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
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Absorbent	1	Martindale's 29th
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Adrenocorticotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aggregant	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	2	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allergenic	4	Martindale's 28th
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiestrogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Analgesic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anaphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Angiogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiAddisonian	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaggregant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.