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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
EUGENOL 76 Fruit Essent. Oil 1000.0 *
FARNESENE 2 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
FAT 0 Plant 48000.0 -0.05 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FAT 0 Seed 312000.0 0.25 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER 15 Plant 143000.0 -0.59 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Essential Oil 10000.0 -0.69 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Fruit Essent. Oil 1000.0 -1.02 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE 11 Shoot 28.0 -0.37 Hendriks, H., Bos, R., and Woerdenbag, H. J. 1996. The Essential Oil of Tanacetum parthenium (L.) Schultz-Bip. Flavor and Fragrance Journal 11(6): 367-71.
GERMACRENE 0 Plant 14900.0 *
GERMACRENE-A 0 Tissue Culture *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Essential Oil 46000.0 -1.00 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Leaf Essent. Oil 31000.0 -0.54 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Shoot 4.0 -0.37 *
GERMACRENE-D 2 Tissue Culture *
GERMACRONOLIDES 0 Plant Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
GUAIANOLIDES 0 Leaf Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
HEXAN-1-AL 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
IRON 6 Plant Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiophidic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiorchitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic 7 *
Antiotitic 1 *
Antiototic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant 18 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antioxidant (LDL) 2 *
Antiozenic 1 *
Antipapillomic 1 *
Antiparkinsonian 3 *
Antiparotitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipellagric 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antipeptic 1 *
Antiperiodontic 1 *
Antiperiodontitic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antipharyngitic 1 *
Antiphotophobic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antipityriasic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiplaque 5 Osawa, K., Matsumoto, T., Maruyama, T., Takiguchi, T., Okuda, K., and Takazoe, I., Studies of the antibacterial activity of plant extracts and their constituents against periodontopathic bacteria, Bull Tokyo Dent. Coll., 31 (1), 1990, 17-21