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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DAUCOSTEROL 5 Seed 170.6 1.40 Jim Duke's personal files.
DECAN-1-AL 1 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE 4 Plant *
DEHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE 4 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDRODIHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE 0 Plant *
DEHYDRODIHYDROCOSTUS-LACTONE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
DEHYDROFUKINONE 0 Leaf *
DEHYDROFUKINONE 0 Plant *
DESMUTAGENIC FACTOR 1 Root 146.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
DIHYDROAPLOTAXENE 0 Root Jim Duke's personal files.
EO 0 Leaf 285.0 -0.99 Wealth of India.
EO 0 Root 600.0 7500.0 -0.30 Wealth of India.
EREMOPHILENE 0 Leaf *
FAT 0 Fruit 150000.0 300000.0 1.65 *
FAT 0 Leaf 1300.0 8335.0 -0.96 Wealth of India.
FAT 0 Root 1645.0 7000.0 -0.53 *
FIBER 15 Leaf 20000.0 94700.0 -0.83 Wealth of India.
FIBER 15 Root 19400.0 97000.0 0.20 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Root 72000.0 -1.16 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Root 700000.0 3.29 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 6 *
Leptingenic 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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipotropic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 3 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 1 *
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 1 *
Memorigenic 1 *
Memory-Enhancer 1 Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Metal-Chelator 2 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
Monoamine-Precursor 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mosquitocide 2 *
Motor-Depressant 1 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).