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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihangover	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	3	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	7	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocysteine	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihypertensive	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	3	Duke, 1992 *