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Common Names
European Nettle; Stinging Nettle
How this plant is used
Food
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| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUTEOXANTHIN | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LYCOPENE | 16 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| LYSINE | 4 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Antonopoulou, S., Demopoulos, C. A., Andrikopoulos, N. K. 1996. Lipid separation from Urtica doica: Existence of platelet-activating factor. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 44(10): 3052-3056. |
| LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Fruit Juice | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MAGNESIUM | 65 | Leaf | 1720.0 | 8600.0 | 1.73 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALIC-ACID | 15 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALTOSE | 2 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Leaf | 2.0 | 7.8 | -0.45 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Root | not available | 7.0 | -0.46 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANGANESE | 14 | Seed | not available | 12.0 | -0.52 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MANNOSE | 3 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
| MERCURY | 1 | Leaf | 0.0 | 0.0 | -0.40 | ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980 |
| METHIONINE | 15 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| MOLYBDENUM | 2 | Leaf | 0.1 | 3.0 | 0.33 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MUCILAGE | 3 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
| MYO-INOSITOL | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Blaschek, W., Hansel, R., Keller, K., Reichling, J., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1998. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Auflage Band 2 (A-K), 909 pp., (L-Z), 858 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. |
| NEOOLIVIL | 0 | Root | 16.6 | 30.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOOLIVIL-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Root | not available | 40.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antipredatory | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprogestational | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Antiprolactin | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antiproliferant | 7 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiproliferative | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostaglandin | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostanoid | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprostatadenomic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antiprostatitic | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiproteolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiprotozoal | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipruritic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Antipsittacotic | 1 | Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh. |
| Antipsoriac | 5 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antipsychotic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antipurpuric | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antipyretic | 3 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Antiradicular | 17 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| AntiRaynaud's | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antirenitic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |