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Plant Viola tricolor (Violaceae)

Common Names
Pansy; Wild Violet
How this plant is used
Medicinal
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
15-CIS-VIOLAXANTHIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
AUROXANTHIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCOSE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
DELPHINIDIN-TRIGLYCOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
EO 0 Plant not available 86.0 -0.73 Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONXANTHIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALACTOSE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALACTURONIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAULTHERIN 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOORIENTIN 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-RHAMNOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM-TARTRATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-SALICYLATE 21 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE 3 Plant not available 95000.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
MYRICETIN 34 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYROSINE 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRTILLIN-A 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ORIENTIN 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic 2 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Emetic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
FLavor 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 4 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic 2 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 5 Duke, 1992 *
Herpetifuge 1 Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 1 Nakane, H., Fukushima, M., and Ono*, K. Differential Inhibition Of Reverse Transcriptase And Various DNA Polymerases By Digallic Acid And Its Derivatives. Journal of Natural Products, 53(5): 1234-1240, 1990.
Hypocholesterolemic 3 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hypoglycemic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Hypotensive 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Immunomodulator 2 Duke, 1992 *