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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
OXALIC-ACID	9	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS-OXIDES	0	Shoot	not available	11260.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYSCION	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-BINOXALATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-OXALATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM-OXIDES	0	Shoot	not available	22925.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	56000.0	96000.0	-1.23	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Shoot	not available	5300.0	-0.18	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON-OXIDES	0	Shoot	not available	9315.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	80000.0	140000.0	1.98	Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEATIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEATIN-RIBOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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)