Plant Stachys officinalis (Lamiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Betony; Wood Betony; Bishop's-Wort; Purple Betony

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
CALCIUM	28	Plant	2822.0	16800.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CHROMIUM	24	Plant	0.2	0.9	-0.78	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	3024.0	18000.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(CRUDE)	0	Plant	not available	120000.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER(DIETARY)	0	Plant	not available	390000.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGIDE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
HARPAGIDE	6	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HARPAGIDE-ACETATE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	2.0	10.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID	4	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
(-)-Chronotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
ABeta-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	5	Ichikawa, K., et al. 1991. Isolation and Structure Determination of Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from Traditional Thai Medicine, and Syntheses of Their Derivatives. Sankyo Kenkyusho Nempo, 43: 99-110.
Allelochemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Allelopathic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Allergenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analgesic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Anthelmintic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacid	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiacne	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).