Plant Althaea officinalis (Malvaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Marshmallow; White Mallow

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
SINAPIC-ACID	9	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SINAPIC-ACID	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Root	148.0	1370.0	0.13	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM-BORATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
SORBITOL	11	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
SPIRAEOSIDE	4	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPIRAEOSIDE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Root	39960.0	370000.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	12415.0	16685.0	-0.20	Wealth of India.
STEROLS	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
SUCROSE	14	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
SUGAR	0	Root	50000.0	110000.0	1.03	Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS	0	Root	11880.0	110000.0	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Root	not available	20000.0	-1.76	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Root	not available	1.0	-0.50	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE	0	Root	0.1	1.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
TILIROSIDE	3	Flower	not available	1900.0	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
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	5	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	17	Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathione-Depleting	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	14	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.