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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Immunosuppressant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Inflammatory | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Inhalant | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Insect-Repellent | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insecticide | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insectifuge | 22 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Insectiphile | 2 | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| Insulinogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Interferon-Synergist | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Interferonogenic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Interleukin-6-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Irritant | 18 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Juvabional | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Larvicide | 6 | Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp. |
| Laxative | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Leptingenic | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
| Lipolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Lithogenic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Litholytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Memorigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |