Plant Tanacetum parthenium (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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
EUGENOL	76	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FARNESENE	2	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.
FAT	0	Plant	not available	48000.0	-0.05	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FAT	0	Seed	not available	312000.0	0.25	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
FIBER	15	Plant	not available	143000.0	-0.59	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Essential Oil	not available	10000.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	1000.0	-1.02	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Shoot	not available	28.0	-0.37	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.
GERMACRENE	0	Plant	not available	14900.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-A	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Essential Oil	not available	46000.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Leaf Essent. Oil	not available	31000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Shoot	not available	4.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRONOLIDES	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.
GUAIANOLIDES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-AL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXAN-1-AL	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.

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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
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	9	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.
Herbistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Histaminic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercalcuric	1	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Hyperglycemic	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.
Hypertensive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic	10	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic	6	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hypolipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	6	Duke, 1992 *
Immunostimulant	8	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.