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Common Names
European Nettle; Stinging Nettle
How this plant is used
Food
| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Percutaneostimulant | 1 | Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990. |
| Perfumery | 7 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Peristaltic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Pesticide | 43 | Duke, 1992 * |
| PGE2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phagocytotic | 4 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Phospholipase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phytoalexin | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Phytohormonal | 2 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Piscicide | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Pituitary-Stimulant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Plasmodicide | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Potassium-Sparing | 1 | Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp. |
| Preservative | 3 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Proliferant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prooxidant | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Propecic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandigenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Prostaglandin-Sparer | 1 | Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990. |