Plant Rumex acetosella (Polygonaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sheep Sorrel

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	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ADENOSINE	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ANTHRAQUINONES	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	500.0	12000.0	0.67	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Shoot	not available	81000.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
AUXIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXIDE	0	Shoot	not available	16200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHIN-TANNIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHALCONES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANIC-ACID	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSOPHANOL	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COUMARINS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYTOKININ	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EMODIN	58	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	17000.0	36000.0	-1.21	Duke, 1992 *
FLOROGLUCOTANNOID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HYPERIN	14	Shoot	not available	120.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPENTENYL-ADENINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM-OXIDES	0	Shoot	not available	10850.0	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
Immunostimulant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Immunosuppressant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	1	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Insectiphile	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic	1	Mitchell, J. and Rook, A.J. 1923. Botanical Dermatology: plants and plant products injurious to the skin. Vancouver: Greengrass, 1979. xiii, 787 p.: ill.
Larvistat	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative	3	Duke, 1992 *
Leucocytogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic	1	LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mitotic	1	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)