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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Rehmannia glutinosa (Scrophulariaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Foxglove
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
VERBASCOSE 1 Root 27000.0 46000.0 *
ZINC 77 Root 14.0 -0.45 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antipellagric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiperiodontitic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiphenylketonuric 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiplaque 2 Martindale's 29th
AntiPMS 3 *
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostaglandin 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 4 *
Antipruritic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antipyretic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiradicular 1 *
AntiRaynaud's 1 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
AntiReye's 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisecretory 1 *
Antiseptic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.