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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Scutellaria baicalensis (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Skullcap; Huang Qin; Baikal Skullcap
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
4-METHOXY-ACETOPHENONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
4-METHOXY-BENZALDEHYDE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
4-PHENYL-BUT-CIS-3-EN-2-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
4-PHENYL-BUT-TRANS-3-EN-2-ONE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
5,2',5'-TRIHYDROXY-6,7,8-TRIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root Abstract (See species file)
5,7,2',5'-TETRAHYDROXY-8,6'-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root Abstract (See species file)
5,7,2'-TRIHYDROXY-8-METHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root Abstract (See species file)
5,7,2'-TRIHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Root Abstract (See species file)
5,7-DIHYDROXY-6-METHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root *
5,8-DIHYDROXY-6,7-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 50.0 *
5-HYDROXY-7,8-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 5.0 *
5-METHYL-FUR-2-ALDEHYDE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
7-METHOXY-BAICALEIN 0 Root *
ACETIC-ACID 16 Root Essent. Oil *
ACETOPHENONE 6 Root Essent. Oil *
ACETYLPYRROLE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Root Essent. Oil *
APIGENIN 101 Leaf 60.0 *
APIGENIN-7-O-GLUCURONIDE 0 Leaf 40.0 *
ARGININE 14 Root *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
GABA-nergic 2 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hallucinogenic 1 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Hemolytic 2 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hepatoprotective 6 *
Herbicide 2 *
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 225.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 *
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypertensive 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 11 *
Hypoglycemic 3 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 1 *
Hypotensive 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.