An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
  1. Home
  2. Scutellaria baicalensis

Scutellaria baicalensis (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Skullcap; Huang Qin; Baikal Skullcap
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
2',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-6',8-TRIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 7.0 *
2',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-6'-METHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 4.0 *
2',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-8-METHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 6.0 *
2',5,7-TRIHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Root 6.0 *
2',5,8-TRIHYDROXY-6,7-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 200.0 *
2'-METHYLSKULLCAPFLAVONE 0 Root *
2(S),2',5,6',7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVANONE 0 Root 230.0 *
2,2',4',6-TETRAHYDROXY-6'-METHOXYCHALCONE 0 Root 5.0 *
2,3-DIHYDROBENZOFURAN 1 Root Essent. Oil *
2-FORMYL-PYRROLE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
2-HYDROXYACETOPHENONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
2-METHYL-BENZYL-ALCOHOL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
2-PENTYL-FURAN 0 Root Essent. Oil *
2-PHENYL-BUTAN-2-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
2S-2',5,6',7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVONONE 0 Root Abstract (See species file)
3-PHENYL-FURAN 0 Root Essent. Oil *
3-PHENYL-PROP-2-EN-1-AL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
4',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-6-METHOXY-FLAVANONE 0 Root 115.0 *
4',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-8-METHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 20.0 30.0 *
4-ETHENYLGUAIACOL 0 Root Essent. Oil *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
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
AntiPMS 3 *
Antipolio 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 3 *
Antiproliferant (colon) 1 *
Antiproliferative 2 Huang, H-C., Wang, H-R., and Hsieh, L-M. 1993. Antiproliferative effect of baicalein, a flavonoid from a Chinese herb, on vascular smooth muscle cell. European J. of Pharmacology 251: 91-93, 1994.
Antiprostaglandin 3 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 5 *
Antipruritic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antipyretic 6 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antipyruvetic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiradicular 3 *
AntiRaynaud's 1 *
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretroviral 1 *
Antirheumatic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisalmonella 6 *