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
Antihepatotoxic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiherpetic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihypertensive	3	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antiichthyosic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfertility	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinflammatory	9	Planta Medica, 56(6): 660, 1990.
Antiischemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileishmanic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antileukemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 225.
Antileukotriene	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antilipolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilipoperoxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antilupus	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	2	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antimastalgic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.