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Plant Urtica dioica (Urticaceae)

Common Names
European Nettle; Stinging Nettle
How this plant is used
Food
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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
TANNIC-ACID 41 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Leaf 59700.0 133000.0 0.27 Jim Duke's personal files.
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Plant 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.
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 0.3 5.4 -0.61 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMINE 0 Leaf 1.0 5.4 0.05 Duke, 1992 *
THREONIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
THREONO-1,4-LACTONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Leaf 5.4 27.0 1.36 Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM 0 Leaf not available 27.0 -0.58 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TYROSINE 8 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Root not available 15.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
URTICA-ARABINOGALACTAN-RP-5 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
URTICA-RHAMNOGALACTURAN-RP-3 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
URTICA-RHAMNOGALACTURAN-RP-4 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
URTICA-TERPENE-DIOL-1 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
URTICA-TERPENE-DIOL-2 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
URTICA-TERPENE-DIOL-3 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
VALINE 3 Leaf not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Root 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
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 3 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 14 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide 19 Martindale's 29th
Fungistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungitoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant 1 Martindale's 28th
Glaucomagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucogonogenic 1 LAWSON in Koch, H. P. and Lawson, L. D., eds. 1996. Garlic- The
Science and therapeutic application of Allium sativum L. and related species. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 329 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 2 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition