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Plant Scutellaria baicalensis (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Chinese Skullcap; Huang Qin; Baikal Skullcap
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
(+)-5,5'-DIMETHOXYLARICIRESINOL 0 Root not available 22.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
(-)-ERODICTYOL 0 Root not available 7.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
(2R,3R)-2',3,5,6',7-PENTAHYDROXYFLAVONONE 0 Root not available not available not available Chemical Constituents of Oriental Herbs (3 diff. books)
1-PHENYL-BUTANE-1,3-DIONE 0 Root Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2',3',5,7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available 6.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',3,5,6',7-PENTAHYDROXY-2(R),3(R)-FLAVANONE 0 Root not available 420.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',3,5,6',7-PENTAHYDROXYFLAVANONE 0 Root not available 120.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',3,5,6',7-PENTAHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available 10.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',3,5,6',7-PENTAMETHOXYFLAVANONE 0 Root not available 674.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,5',7-TETRAHYDROXY-6',8-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root 17.0 356.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,5',7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available 3.5 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,5'-TRIHYDROXY-6,7,8-TRIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available 4.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,5'-TRIHYDROXY-7,8-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,6',7-TETRAHYDROXY-2(S)-FLAVANONE 0 Root not available 380.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,6',7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVANONE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,6',7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVANONE 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,6',7-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,6'-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVANONE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,6'-TRIHYDROXY-7,8-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available 7.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
2',5,7-TRIHYDROXY-6',8-DIMETHOXYFLAVONE 0 Root not available 9.0 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
Antiencephalopathic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiesophagitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiestrogenic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifatigue 4 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antifeedant 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigastric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 1 Duke, 1992 *