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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiophidic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiorchitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antioxidant Synergist	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiparkinsonian	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiparotitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiperiodontitic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplaque	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiplatelet	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipneumonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipodriac	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipoliomyelitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiproliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiprotozoal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	4	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.