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

Common Names

Feverfew

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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
SANTAMARIN	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANTAMARINE	3	Flower	not available	424.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SANTIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARATHOLIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHENOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-A	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-A	0	Shoot	not available	0.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-B	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SECOTANAPARTHOLIDE-B	0	Shoot	not available	0.8	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Plant	not available	1.7	-0.35	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILICON	4	Plant	not available	4.6	-0.52	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SODIUM	1	Plant	not available	48.0	-0.30	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
STIGMASTEROL	12	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANACETIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Tramil
TANACETIN	0	Shoot	not available	15800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-1ALPHA,4ALPHA-EPOXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-1BETA,4BETA-EPOXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-ALPHA-PEROXIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANAPARTHIN-ALPHA-PEROXIDE	0	Shoot	not available	1.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiimpotence	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	21	Shimizu,*M., et al. 1990. Anti-inflammatory Constituents of Topically Applied Crude Drugs. IV.1) Constituents and Anti-inflammatory Effect of Paraguayan Crude Drug 'Alhucema' (Lavandula latifolia Vill.)2). Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(8): 2283-2284, 1990.
Antiinsomniac	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomnic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antikeratitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antikeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antikeshan	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antilaryngitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilepric	3	Martindale's 28th
Antileukemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukonychic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukoplakic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.