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Plant Sanguisorba officinalis (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Greater 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
SANGUISORBIGENIN 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANGUISORBIN 0 Plant 25000.0 40000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANGUISORBINE-A 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANGUISORBINE-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANGUISORBINE-E 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Root not available 9000.0 -1.04 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Plant not available 170000.0 1.26 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Hs not available 170000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TOMENTOSLIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
WAREMOKONIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZIYUGLYCOSIDE-I 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZIYUGLYCOSIDE-II 0 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
Phagocytotic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Proliferant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 2 Dunstan, C. A., Liu, B., Welch, C. J., Perera, P., Bohlin, L. 1998. Alphitol, a Phenolic Substance from Alphitonia zizyphoides which Inhibits Prostaglandin Biosynthesis in vitro. Phytochemistry, 48(3): 495-497.
Protease-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 1 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 2 Chemical Express, 7: 285, 1992.
Psychotropic 1 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.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 3 Duke, 1992 *
Sodium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 3 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 4 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.