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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
TRANS-SPIROKETAL-ENOL-ETHER 0 Root Essent. Oil 51000.0 *
WATER 0 Plant 895000.0 0.53 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ZINC 77 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
Antirhinitic 2 *
Antisalmonella 3 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antisecretory 2 *
Antiseptic 18 Merck 11th Edition
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisinusitic 1 *
Antispare-Tire 1 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
Antispasmodic 23 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 8 *
Antistomatitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antistreptococcic 4 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 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
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.