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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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PROTEIN 0 Plant not available 267000.0 0.77 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTEIN 0 Seed not available 222000.0 -0.10 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PYRETHRIN 0 Plant not available not available not available Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
QUERCETAGETIN-3,3',7-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETAGETIN-3,3',7-TRIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETAGETIN-3,7-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETAGETIN-3,7-DIMETHYL-ETHER 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
REYNOSIN 1 Flower not available 1485.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
REYNOSIN 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
REYNOSIN 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
REYNOSIN 1 Shoot not available 0.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Plant not available 2.5 -0.62 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SABINENE 5 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE 5 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE 5 Shoot not available 5.0 -0.29 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.
SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE-HYDRATE 0 Shoot not available 1.5 not available 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.
SABINOL 5 Fruit Essent. Oil not available 1300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTAMARIN 5 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SANTAMARIN 5 Leaf not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiulcerogenic 1 Rafatullah, S., Tariq, M., Al-Yahya, M.A., Mossa, J.S., and Ageel, A.M. 1989. Evaluation of Turmeric (Curcuma longa) for Gastric and Duodenal Antiulcer Activity in Rats. J. of Ethnopharmacology, 29: 25-34, 1990.
Antivaginitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antivertigo 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral 9 Duke, 1992 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiyeast 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anxiolytic 6 Internat. J. Oriental Med. 16: 4.
AP-1-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Aphrodisiac 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Apifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide 2 Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 1 Martindale's 28th
Ataxigenic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Attifuge 1 CIBA (Chadwick, D.J. and Marsh, J. 1990. Bioactive Compounds from Plants. CIBA Foundation Symposium 154. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester UK. 242 pp.
Bacteriostatic 1 Chin. J. Tuber. Respir. Dis.
Barbituate-Synergist 1 Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker 1 Duke, 1992 *