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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Tragopogon porrifolius (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Salsify
How this plant is used
Food

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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
9,10-EPOXYSTEARIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 56.0 -0.28 *
ARSENIC 2 Root 0.1 -0.20 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Root 80.0 491.0 -0.37 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Root 0.0 0.3 -0.43 *
CALCIUM 28 Root 480.0 2610.0 -0.52 *
CAOUTCHOUC 0 Root 2000.0 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Root 186000.0 888000.0 0.74 *
CHLORINE 7 Root 460.0 -1.37 *
COPPER 12 Root 1.0 -1.19 *
FAT 0 Root 2000.0 39150.0 0.54 *
FIBER 15 Root 2000.0 78300.0 -0.22 *
GUM 0 Seed 10000.0 -0.74 *
HYDROXYDIEN-ACID 0 Plant *
INULIN 19 Root *
IRON 6 Root 7.0 67.0 -0.34 *
ISOORIENTIN 4 Plant *
ISOVITEXIN 4 Plant *
LUCENIN-1 0 Plant *
LUTEOLIN 78 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Acarifuge 1 (View) *
ACE-Inhibitor 5 (View) *
Acidulant 1 (View) Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Alcohol-Dehydrogenase-Inhibitor 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 4 (View) Shin*, K.H., Chung, M.S., Chae, Y.J., Yoon, K.Y., Cho, T.S. 1992. A survey for aldose reductase inhibition of herbal medicines. Fitoterapia 64(2): 130, 1993.
Allergenic 2 (View) *
Analgesic 3 (View) *
Androgenic? 1 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 (View) *
Anorexic 1 (View) Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiacne 3 (View) Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 (View) *
AntiAGE 1 (View) Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 2 (View) *
Antiaging 2 (View) *
Antiakathisic 1 (View) Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 (View) Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiallergic 4 (View) *
Antialopecic 1 (View) Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.