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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.
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
MATAIRESINOL 4 Seed not available 170.6 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
MERCURY 1 Root not available 1.3 4.06 Chen, H.C. and Lin, S.M. 1988. Determination of Mineral Elements in Certain Crude Drugs (Part 1), Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci., 4: 259-272.
METHIONINE 15 Root 90.0 450.0 -1.09 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-ARCTATE-B 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE 3 Plant 50000.0 120000.0 -0.25 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MUCILAGE 3 Root 11750.0 120000.0 -0.25 Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEOARC-B 0 Seed not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
NEOARCTIN-B 0 Seed not available 38.0 not available Jim Duke's personal files.
NIACIN 39 Root 3.0 13.0 -1.08 Duke, 1992 *
OCT-2-EN-1-AL 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OCT-3-EN-1-OIC-ACID 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 30000.0 36000.0 -0.20 Wealth of India.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 10500.0 12600.0 -0.17 Wealth of India.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
PECTINESTERASE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Wealth of India.
PENTADEC-1-ENE 0 Root not available not available not available Jim Duke's personal files.
PEROXIDASE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Wealth of India.
PETASITALONE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PETASITOLONE 0 Leaf not available not available 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
AntiRaynaud's 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic 1 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
Antiretinotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antiscoliotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic 6 Martindale's 28th
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisialogogue 1 Martindale's 28th
Antisickling 2 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 1 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
Antispasmodic 9 Duke, 1992 *
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antistaphylococcic 2 Duke, 1992 *