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Common Names
Gobo; Great Burdock; Burdock
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
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| 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 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Hypocholesterolemic | 16 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Hypoglycemic | 9 | Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989. |
| Hypolipidemic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 10 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypouricemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Immunomodulator | 8 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Immunostimulant | 10 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Immunosuppressant | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Insecticide | 2 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Insecticide-Synergist | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Insectifuge | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insulinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157. |
| Insulinogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insulinotonic | 1 | J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079. |
| Interferon-Synergist | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Interferonogenic | 2 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Irritant | 4 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Juvabional | 1 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Keratitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Larvicide | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |