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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitussive	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antivaginitic	1	TIllotson, A. K. (with Abel, Jr., R., Tillotson, N.H., Bajracharya, V.M.B.). 2001. The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know about Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments. Twin Streams, Kensington Publishing Corp. NY,NY. 596 pp
Antivaricose	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral	5	Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Arteriodilator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bird-Repellent	1	Merck 11th Edition
Calcium-Antagonist	4	Duke, 1992 *
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Cancer-Preventive	3	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	1	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Capillarifortificant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.