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Plant Stevia rebaudiana (Asteraceae)

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

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List of plant chemicals.
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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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 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 not available 72.0 -0.70 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ANETHOLE 36 Flower not available not available not available 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 not available not available not available 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 not available 100.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf not available 110.0 -0.43 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASH 0 Leaf 63000.0 130000.0 0.20 Duke, 1992 *
AUSTROINULIN 0 Flower not available 2100.0 not available 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 not available 600.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
AUSTROINULIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Flower not available 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 not available 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 not available 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
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic 11 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 8 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 11 Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 7 Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant 1 Martindale's 29th
Inflammatory 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inhalant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insect-Repellent 2 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 8 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 17 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 5 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulinogenic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Interferon-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *