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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
CAMPHENE 9 Fruit Essent. Oil 7000.0 -0.34 *
CAMPHENE 9 Leaf Essent. Oil 30000.0 0.19 *
CAMPHENE 9 Shoot 95.0 -0.13 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.
CAMPHOR 41 Essential Oil 442000.0 1.34 *
CAMPHOR 41 Fruit Essent. Oil 189000.0 *
CAMPHOR 41 Leaf Essent. Oil 201000.0 0.41 *
CAMPHOR 41 Shoot 24.0 -0.16 *
CANIN 5 Leaf *
CANIN 5 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CANIN 5 Shoot 0.8 *
CAR-3-ENE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 514000.0 -1.02 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CARVACROL 37 Shoot 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.
CARYOPHYLLENE 31 Fruit Essent. Oil *
CARYOPHYLLENE-EPOXIDE 6 Shoot 31.0 1.64 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.
CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 8 Fruit Essent. Oil 4000.0 -1.00 *
CHROMIUM 24 Plant 1.7 -0.70 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CHRYSANTH-TRANS-ENYL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil 235000.0 *
CHRYSANTHEMOLIDE 0 Leaf *
CHRYSANTHEMOMIN 0 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cytotoxic 6 *
Decongestant 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Degranulant 1 *
Deliriant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Dentifrice 2 Martindale's 29th
Deodorant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 2 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermatitigenic 5 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diuretic 7 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Ecbolic 1 *
Edemagenic 1 *
Emetic 2 *
Emmenagogue 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Enterocontractant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant 3 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.