Plant Viola tricolor (Violaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pansy; Wild Violet

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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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
PAEONIDIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Flower	100000.0	230000.0	2.83	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONARETIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SCOPARINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROL	93	Flower	not available	302.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VICENIN-2	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLA-EMETINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLANINE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLANTHIN	0	Flower	not available	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAQUERCITRIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLAXANTHIN	2	Flower	500.0	700.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLEOXANTHIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLIN	1	Plant	not available	30.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIOLUTOSIDE	0	Plant	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
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 *