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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VANILLIN | 28 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | 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. |
| VIOLAXANTHIN | 2 | Seed | 10.0 | 25.0 | 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. |
| VIT-B-1 | 0 | Plant | not available | 0.8 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| VIT-K | 0 | Leaf | 1.6 | 76.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| WATER | 0 | Leaf | not available | 800000.0 | -0.04 | Duke, 1992 * |
| XANTHOPHYLL-EPOXIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| XYLOSE | 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. |
| ZEATIN | 2 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ZEATIN | 2 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ZEATIN | 2 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ZEATIN | 2 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ZEATIN-NUCLEOTIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ZEATIN-O-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ZEATIN-O-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Root | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ZEATIN-O-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| ZINC | 77 | Leaf | 0.9 | 4.7 | -0.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ZINC | 77 | Root | not available | 19.0 | -0.23 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ZINC | 77 | Seed | not available | 19.0 | -0.74 | 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 |