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

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
BAICALEIN 50 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BAICALEIN-7-GLUCURONIDE 0 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BAICALIN 40 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NORWOGONIN 0 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
12-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 Kohda, H., Tanaka, S., Yamaoka, Y., Yahara, S., Nohara, T., Tanimoto, T., Tanaka, A. 1989. Studies on Lens-Aldose-Reductase Inhibitor in Medicinal Plants.II Active Constituents of Monochasma savatierii FRANCH, et MAXIM. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 37(11):3153-3154
Antiacne 1 *
Antiaggregant 2 Butenko, I.G., Gladtchenko, S.V., and Galushko, S.V. Anti-inflammatory properties and inhibition of leukotriene C4 biosynthesis in vitro by flavonoid baicalein from Scutellaria baicalensis georgy roots. Agents Actions 39: C49, 1993.
Antiallergic 2 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antianaphylactic 1 Abe, K-i., Inoue, O., and Yumioka, E. 1989. Biliary Excretion of Metabolites of Baicalin and Baicalein in Rats. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(1): 208-211, 1990.
Antiarthritic 2 *
Antiasthmatic 2 *
Antiatherosclerotic 1 *
Antibacterial 1 Foster, S. and Yue, C-G. 1992. Herbal Emissaries-Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West. Healing Arts Press, Rochester VT. 356 pp.
Anticholinergic 1 *
Anticolitic 1 *
Antidermatitic 1 *
Antidote (Strychnine) 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiedemic 2 *
Antiflu 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antigenotoxic 1 *
Antihepatomic 2 *