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
LYSINE	4	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	185.0	1100.0	-0.92	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	3.2	19.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
MELITTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXYSTACHYDRINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	302.0	1800.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	1596.0	9500.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	11760.0	70000.0	-0.85	Duke, 1992 *
REPTOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	14.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID	57	Plant	not available	not available	not available	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SCUTELLAREIN-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Plant	0.5	2.8	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Plant	1.3	8.0	-0.50	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
Antivitiligic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic	9	Duke, 1992 *
AP-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	5	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	17	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Carcinogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cardiodepressant	1	Duke, 1992 *