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
Interferonogenic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Irritant	6	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Juvabional	2	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	4	Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAPK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Metal-Chelator	2	McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper)	1	Seidel, V., Verholle, M., Malard, Y., Tillequin, F., Fruchart, J-C., Duriez, P., Bailleul, F., Teissier, E. 2000. Phenylpropanoids from Ballota nigra L. Inhibit in vitro LDL Peroxidation. Phytotherapy Research, 14(2): 93-98.
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
MMP-9-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Mosquitocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Musculotropic	1	Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *