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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 |
|---|---|---|
| P450-2B1-Inhibitor | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| P450-Inducer | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pediculicide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Perfume | 1 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Perfumery | 18 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Peristaltic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pesticide | 43 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phagocytotic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Pheromone | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Photosensitizer | 1 | Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp. |
| Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Progesteronigenic | 1 | Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer) |
| Prooxidant | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Sparer | 1 | Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990. |
| Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Chen, S. J., Wang, M. H., Chen, I. J. 1996. Antiplatelet and Calcium Inhibitory Properties of Eugenol and Sodium Eugenol Acetate. Gen Pharmacol, 27(4): 629-633. |
| Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Protisticide | 1 | Abstract (See species file) |