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
Capillarigenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective	1	Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cardioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Catabolic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cathartic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Chelator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Depressant	1	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Paralytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Collagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *