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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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Beta-Blocker 2 Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Bronchoprotectant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Bronchorelaxant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Calcium-Antagonist 5 Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker 1 Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive 14 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 12 Martindale's 28th
Candidistat 2 Duke, 1992 *
Carcinogenic 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.
Carcinogenic? 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Cardiomyopathogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Cardioprotective 8 Duke, 1992 *
Cardiotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Carminative 5 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Chemopreventive 3 Duke, 1992 *
Cholagogue 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Choleretic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Cholesterolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *