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Plant Sanguisorba minor (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Small Burnet
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 616000.0 804000.0 0.85 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Plant not available 94000.0 0.62 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 16000.0 203000.0 -0.33 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Plant 76000.0 244000.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Leaf not available 111000.0 -1.01 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 66000.0 174000.0 0.00 Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antiallergenic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiangiogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic 2 Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antiatherogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial 10 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer 5 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 1 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinogenic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *