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Plant Arctium lappa (Asteraceae)

Common Names
Gobo; Great Burdock; Burdock
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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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
ARCTIGENIN-4-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ARCTIGENIN-4-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-A 0 Fruit not available 125.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-B 0 Fruit not available 150.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-C 0 Fruit not available 140.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-D 0 Fruit not available 250.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIGNAN-E 0 Fruit not available 270.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIIN 4 Fruit not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTIIN 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARCTIIN 4 Seed 11.7 30000.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINAL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINAL 0 Root not available 0.2 not available Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINOL 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINOL 0 Root not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ARCTINOL-A 0 Root not available 0.1 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINOL-B 0 Root not available 0.3 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ARCTINONE 0 Root not available not available not available Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ARCTINONE-A 0 Root not available 3.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
ARCTINONE-A-ACETATE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
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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
Anhydrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anorexic 2 Martindale's 28th
Anthelmintic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
AntiAGE 2 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 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.