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
SODIUM	1	Plant	0.5	3.0	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
STACHYDRINE	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TANNIN	35	Plant	25200.0	150000.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TURICINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
TYROSINE	8	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Plant	not available	832000.0	0.26	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Plant	0.1	0.8	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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).