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
CAMPHOR	41	Leaf	0.0	1800.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
CARYOPHYLLENE	31	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-CHRYSANTHENYL-ACETATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LONGIPINANE-2,7-DIONE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COSTUNOLIDE-DIEPOXIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CRISPOLIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DAVANONE	0	Shoot	7061.0	8803.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DESACETYLPYRETROSIN	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSMETIN	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Plant	4000.0	5000.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
EUPATILIN	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CADINENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TERPINENE	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Plant	1400.0	2000.0	1.26	Duke, 1992 *
GERMACRENE-D	2	Pm	1400.0	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOCHLOROGENIC-ACID	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPINOCAMPHONE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOTHUJONE	0	Plant	2640.0	4050.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
JACEIDIN	2	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
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	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.
Epileptigenic	2	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Estrogenic	3	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Expectorant	4	Martindale's 29th
FLavor	8	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	8	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.
Gastroprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	4	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	5	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.
Herbistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.