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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.
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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 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant activities.
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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.