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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
MATAIRESINOL 4 Seed 170.6 Jim Duke's personal files.
MERCURY 1 Root 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 *
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 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant *
NEOARC-B 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
NEOARCTIN-B 0 Seed 38.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
NIACIN 39 Root 3.0 13.0 -1.08 *
OCT-2-EN-1-AL 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
OCT-3-EN-1-OIC-ACID 0 Root 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 Jim Duke's personal files.
PECTINESTERASE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
PENTADEC-1-ENE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
PEROXIDASE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
PETASITALONE 0 Leaf *
PETASITOLONE 0 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Co-carcinogenic 1 *
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagen-Sparing 2 *
Collagenic 2 *
Colorant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedolytic 1 *
Contraceptive 1 Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist 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
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor 2 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 3 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytostatic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cytotoxic 5 *
Demulcent 1 *
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 1 *
Detoxicant 1 *