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

Common Names

Common Polypody; Sweet Fern

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
POLLINASTANOL	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYDINE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYPODIN-A	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYPODOSAPONIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RESIN	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAMAMBAIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SERRATINE	0	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Rhizome	not available	63000.0	-2.36	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Rhizome	not available	155000.0	1.67	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
Anticoagulant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antidandruff	1	A.L.L. Hunting. Encyclopedia of Shampoo Ingredients. Micelle Press, Cranford NJ. 467 pp.
Antidepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidermatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidiabetic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antidiptheric	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidote	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antidote (Iodine)	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antieczemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiedemic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antielastase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifeedant	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antigingivitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.