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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
VITEXIN-MONO-C-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE	3	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN	5	Flower	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
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	Uda, Y., Price, K. R., Williamson, G., Rhodes, M. J. C. 1997. Induction of the Anticarcinogenic Marker Enzyme, Quinone Reductase, in Murine Hepatoma Cells In Vitro by Flavonoids. Cancer Lett., 120 (2): 213-216.
Radioprotective	2	Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	1	Martindale's 28th
Teratologic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Thermogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Tineacide	1	Martindale's 29th
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *