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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Stevia rebaudiana (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Ca-A-E; Sweet Leaf of Paraguay; Stevia
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Flower 17.0 -1.00 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-CUBEBENE 0 Leaf 1.0 -0.41 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Flower 260.0 -0.04 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE 2 Leaf 30.0 -0.42 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Flower 4.0 -0.81 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-PINENE 28 Leaf 5.0 -0.22 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Flower 54.0 -0.47 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf 34.0 -0.53 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ALUMINUM 5 Leaf 72.0 -0.70 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ANETHOLE 36 Flower Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
ANETHOLE 36 Leaf Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
APIGENIN-4'-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf 100.0 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 110.0 -0.43 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASH 0 Leaf 63000.0 130000.0 0.20 *
AUSTROINULIN 0 Flower 2100.0 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
AUSTROINULIN 0 Leaf 600.0 *
AUSTROINULIN 0 Plant *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Flower 4.0 -0.79 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Leaf 12.0 0.08 Kinghorn, A. D. (Ed.) 2002. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles. Stevia. The genus Stevia. Taylor & Francis. New York, NY. 211 pp.
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Plant 10.0 -1.00 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antimitral-valve-prolapse 1 *
AntiMS 1 *
Antimutagenic 11 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antimyalgic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimyocarditic 1 *
Antinephritic 1 *
Antinephrolytic 1 *
Antineuralgic 3 Martindale's 28th
Antineuramidase 1 *
Antineurasthenic 1 *
Antineuritic 1 *
Antineuropathic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antineurotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiNF-kB 2 *
Antinitrosaminic 2 *
Antinitrosating 1 *
Antinitrosic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antinociceptive 5 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antinyctalopic 1 *
Antiobesity 6 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.