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Plant Tanacetum parthenium (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Feverfew
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
SANTAMARIN 5 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTAMARINE 3 Flower not available 424.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARATHOLIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHENOLIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-A 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-A 0 Shoot not available 0.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-B 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-B 0 Shoot not available 0.8 not available Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM 60 Plant not available 1.7 -0.35 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILICON 4 Plant not available 4.6 -0.52 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SODIUM 1 Plant not available 48.0 -0.30 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANACETIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Tramil
TANACETIN 0 Shoot not available 15800.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-1ALPHA,4ALPHA-EPOXIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-1BETA,4BETA-EPOXIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-ALPHA-PEROXIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-ALPHA-PEROXIDE 0 Shoot not available 1.6 not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 Duke, 1992 *
Ankylostomacide 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Anorexic 2 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholine 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne 12 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic 2 Merck 11th Edition
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 10 Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic 6 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 4 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 3 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *