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Common Names
Feverfew
How this plant is used
Medicinal
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISOAMYL-ISOVALERATE | 0 | Fruit Essent. Oil | not available | 2000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOFRAXIDIN | 5 | Root | not available | 122.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| KILOCALORIES | 0 | Plant | not available | 2860.0 | -0.41 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| L-BORNEOL | 0 | Plant | 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. |
| LIMONENE | 60 | Essential Oil | not available | 5000.0 | -0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LIMONENE | 60 | Shoot | not available | not available | 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. |
| LINALOOL | 53 | Essential Oil | not available | 13000.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| LINALYL-PROPIONATE | 0 | Shoot | not available | not available | 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. |
| LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCURONIDE | 3 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Plant | not available | 2400.0 | -0.52 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| MAGNOLIALIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Plant | not available | 8.1 | -0.64 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| MANGOLIOLIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| MELATONIN | 23 | Leaf | 6.0 | 3500.0 | 1.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MICHEFUSCALIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRCENE | 22 | Fruit Essent. Oil | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NIACIN | 39 | Plant | not available | 285.0 | 2.92 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
| OCTANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER | 0 | Fruit Essent. Oil | not available | 1000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ORTHOCARSINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Tramil |
| P-CYMENE | 16 | Essential Oil | not available | 31000.0 | -0.38 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Enterotoxic | 1 | Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp. |
| Epileptigenic | 1 | Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp. |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Erythrocytogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Estrogenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| FLavor | 25 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fumigant | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Fungicide | 19 | Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp. |
| Fungiphilic | 1 | J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283. |
| Fungistat | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GABA-nergic | 2 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Gastroirritant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gastroprotective | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gonadotrophic | 2 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Gram(+)icide | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |