Listed below are some of the plants in the CEBTech Services Herbarium that have been shown by previous investigators to produce biochemicals that could be of industrial or medical importance.
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| Scientific Name | Common Name | |
| Cypripedium calceolus | Lady Slipper |
Cypripedin and an antispasmodic, a nerve medicine, lessens anxiety and restlessness |
| Delphinium virescens | Larkspur |
Delphinine, veatchine, atisine, lycoctonine, anthocyanins, multiple medicinal uses |
| Descurainia sophia | Herb - Sophia |
Seed fats contain erucic acid |
| Dicentra cucullaria | Dutchman's Breeches |
Cularine, stylopine, protopine |
| Echinacea pallida | Coneflower |
Used as an antitumor, anti-viral, and an immunostimulant, also effective against herpes, influenza, and is a wound healer, has been shown to activate reticulo-endothelial layer to increase alpha, beta, and gamma globulin in the formation of antibodies, and to increase the rate of phagocytosis |
| Elaeagnus angustifolia | Russian Olive |
Quebrachitol production |
| Equisetum laevigatum | Scouring Rush, Horsetail |
The silica contained in Horsetail is highly absorbable and is utilized to promote bone growth and collagen formation, has a high content of minerals in general, has been shown to reduce edema in some cases of arthritis, multiple medicinal uses |
| Eupatorium rugosum | White Snake Root |
Produces linoleic acid in seed fats, also known to be poisonous |
| Euphorbia esula | Leafy Spurge |
Seed fats contain linoleic, oleic, linolenic and conjugated polythenoid acids, D-pinitol, L-inositol, euphol |
| Galium aparine | Cleaver |
Produces 2-Methylanthraquinone, multiple medicinal uses |
| Geranium fremontii | Wild Geranium |
Geranyl pyrophosphate, ostruthin, bergamottin, geranylphenols, multiple medicinal uses |
| Grindelia squarrosa | Gumweed |
Linoleic acid in seed fats, grindelol, saponin, tannin, robastic acid, multiple medicinal uses |
| Hedeoma pulegioides | American Pennyroyal |
Cure for headaches, promotes menstruation, used as a stimulant, aromatic, carminative, stomachic |
| Helianthus maximiliani | Sunflower |
Linoleic acid in seed fats, acetylenic aldehydes, terpinoids, ketones and epoxides (17 carbons), multiple medicinal uses |
| Heracleum lanatum | Cow - Parsnip |
Umbelliferone (7-hydroxycoumarin), hydrangin, skimmetin, multiple medicinal uses |
| Hypoxis hirsuta | Star - Grass |
Alkaloids, norbelladine, norpluviine, lycorine, homolycorine, O-Methylnorbelladine, tazettine, narwedine, galanthamine |
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