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

Common Names

Tansy

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
1,8-CINEOLE	67	Leaf	472.0	1300.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
1-BETA-HYDROXYARBUSCULIN-A	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1-EPI-LUDOVICIN-C	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
11,13-DEHYDRODESACETYL-MATRICARIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-THUJEN-2-ALPHA-YL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-BERGAMOTENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CAMPHOLENOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-PINENE	28	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE	13	Plant	40.0	200.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARBUSCULIN-A	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMISIA-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMISIA-KETONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARTEMORIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ELEMENE	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-THUJONE	5	Leaf	1124.0	3500.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-THUJYL-ALCOHOL	0	Plant	348.0	435.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNEOL	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORNYL-ACETATE	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	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
Antiadenoviral	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiaflatoxin	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaging	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiallergic	3	J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialzheimeran	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	1	Meli, R., Autore, G., Di Carlo, G., Capasso, F. Inhibitory Action of Quercetin on Intestinal Transit in Mice. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 201, 1990.
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiasthmatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antibacterial	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticancer	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Anticancer (Colon)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *