Plant Borago officinalis (Boraginaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Borage, Beebread, Beeplant, Talewort

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

Select a Results View:

Download these results as:

CSV

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 Sort descending	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(-)-BORNESITOL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
7-ACETYL-INTERMEDINE	0	Leaf	0.1	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
7-ACETYL-LYCOPSAMINE	0	Leaf	0.1	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ACETIC-ACID	16	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETYLINTERMEDINE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ACETYLLYCOPSAMINE	1	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALANINE	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALKALOIDS	0	Leaf	2.0	8.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Plant	2.0	98.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
ALKALOIDS	0	Seed	not available	300.0	-0.80	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Embryo	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN	12	Leaf	not available	61.0	-1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN	12	Rhizome	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN	12	Root	not available	49.0	-0.71	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN	12	Seed	not available	423.0	-1.00	Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLANTOIN	12	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	not available	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.
AMABILINE	1	Leaf	0.1	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMABILINE	1	Seed	not available	20.0	not available	Jim Duke's personal files.

Download these results as:

CSV

XLSX

List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Sort descending	Chemical Count	Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	2 (View Chemicals list for 11B-HSD-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	5 (View Chemicals list for 5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2 (View Chemicals list for 5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
ABeta-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for ABeta-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for ACE-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1 (View Chemicals list for Acetylcholinergic)	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	3 (View Chemicals list for Acidulant)	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for Adenylate-Cyclase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1 (View Chemicals list for Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	4 (View Chemicals list for Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Allelochemic	3 (View Chemicals list for Allelochemic)	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic	6 (View Chemicals list for Allergenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	2 (View Chemicals list for Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor)	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	4 (View Chemicals list for Analgesic)	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1 (View Chemicals list for Androgenic?)	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	2 (View Chemicals list for Anemiagenic)	Duke, 1992 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker	3 (View Chemicals list for Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker)	Duke, 1992 *
Anthelmintic	1 (View Chemicals list for Anthelmintic)	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacid	1 (View Chemicals list for Antiacid)	Martindale's 29th
Antiacne	5 (View Chemicals list for Antiacne)	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).